[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[David Earl]

On 02/11/2009 13:11, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> El Domingo, 1 de Noviembre de 2009, Anthony escribió:
>> Yes, a collection of aerial images is a database.  But a single aerial
>> image is probably not.
> 
> Heck, a single aerial image *is* a database of pixels :-D

By analogy then, so is this email a database of words and characters, 
but that's a perverse interpretation, not what most people would call a 
database, and certainly not for the purposes of EU database copyright 
where a database is "a collection of independent works, data or other 
materials which: (a) are arranged in a systematic or methodical way; and 
(b) are individually accessible by electronic or other means", the key 
word being "independent".

David