On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:48 AM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What I'm curious about is if a document is written in XML can be<br>
considered copyrighted, why can't geo-data be copyrighted as well<br>
since it's not a database of facts, but a document of information<br>
created, in this case, by crowd sourcing.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>A document in XML may or may not be copyrightable. It depends on the underlying content, the selection of that content, the arrangement of that content, etc.<br>