<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">where in one of the first paragraphs there is this unproven claim: <br><br>"<br><p>Geocoding Results are a Produced Work by the definition of the ODbL (section 1.):
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<blockquote><div>“Produced Work” – a work (such as an image, audiovisual
material, text, or sounds) resulting from using the whole or a
Substantial part of the Contents (via a search or other query) from this
Database, a Derivative Database, or this Database as part of a
Collective Database."<br></div></blockquote></span></div></blockquote></div><br>A geocoding result is created via a search or a query. It's a Produced Work. A work can specifically be a database, see <a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-5698" target="_blank">http://www.out-law.com/page-5698</a>, "Databases are treated as a class of literary works and may therefore receive copyright protection for the selection and/or arrangement of the contents under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988." (UK law)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is clearly a possible reading of the ODbL and it would enable geocoding.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>