[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Lunes, 2 de Noviembre de 2009, David Earl escribió:
> > 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".

Oh, the wording of the spanish law is a bit funnier, because it 
replaces "other materials" with "other items".

That means that the way I arrange the cups in my kitchen cabinet is a database 
too :-D


So, yes, laws are blurry and subject to interpretation. News at 11.


El Lunes, 2 de Noviembre de 2009, Peteris Krisjanis escribió:
> If I am not mistaken, one definition what I heard from people with
> insight in this field is that sat/ort photos are databases of the facts. 
> Fact isn't copyrightable, but database of them - is.

Just a pedantic remark:

Databases are not copyrightable, 'cause copyright law doesn't apply to 
databases. *Sui generis database law* applies to databases (such law is based 
on the EU DB directive). 


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