[OSM-legal-talk] images are Produced Works

[Richard Weait]

My position is that images are Produced Works, not a derived OSM
database.  

Rendered images are a creative work that requires skill and judgement.  

This is an important use case and ODbL Section 1 Definitions
specifically includes "images" in the definition of Produced Work. 

I further believe that a directory tree full of images ./zoom/x/y are
still Produced Work and that even a database of these Produced Work
images is still a Produced Work.  

In the special case of somebody creating a "renderer" that takes input
from the OSM database and renders it as OCR text, then uses a
"post-processing" step to OCR-to-text back into a database; that is
reverse engineering and covered in the Reverse Engineering clause.  

Rendered images being Produced Work is an important use case judging
from the level of discussion.  Perhaps the legal team can assure us that
we are fine and the the legal reading supports our goals.  If not
perhaps they can fix the terms of the license and / or the preamble to
make this both clearer to laymen and clear in law. 

Best regards,
Richard