<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Jukka Rahkonen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jukka.rahkonen@latuviitta.fi">jukka.rahkonen@latuviitta.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
80n <80n80n@...> writes:<br>
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> There are many things that meet the almost trivial threshold that legally<br>
constitutes creativity. Road classification, land use, abstraction,<br>
generalization, selectivity, arbitrary tagging, arrangement, smoothness, routes,<br>
desire paths, boundary approximation, building outlines, junction topology,<br>
address schema, layers, etc. All creative, all copyrightable.<br>
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I have been leading a team of digitizers tracing features from aerial images. I<br>
was doing everything I could to minimize the creative or artistic part of their<br>
work. Actually, a quite heavy system of internal and external quality control<br>
was there just to make sure that every worker was producing about the same sort<br>
of bulk data.<br></blockquote><div><br>So, without your best endeavours, would you agree that these contributors would naturally introduce some creativeness? If you have to expend effort to remove creativity then you have made a pretty good case for the existence of creativity. Thank you for your testimony.<br>
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There are also other and bigger organizations than OSM doing same kind of, for<br>
my mind non-creative, work. </blockquote><div><br>Please don't misunderstand the legal meaning of creativity
with respect to copyright. As far as I know, creativity in this context refers to
factors such as originality, arrangment and selectivity. Decisions such
as whether or not to trace a particular feature because of its
prominence is one of selectivity and in the eyes of the law that might constitute creativity.<br>
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Mapping agencies in the European countries, for<br>
example. I think that we must not claim that this kind of work is creative and<br>
copyrightable. That will be used against us and against all the citizens willing<br>
to use geospatial data produced by our administrations. We should show an<br>
example about free geodata, not the opposite.<br>
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-Jukka Rahkonen-<br>
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