--- Stirling Newberry <stirling.newberry(a)xigenics.net> wrote:
Collecting and creating spatial data is indeed
creative work,
Making a digital outline of a river or road from an aerial photo is slavish,
not creative work. The only creativity possible is in making mistakes but the
Supremes have ruled that that cannot be used to justify a copyright defense.
The problem is that this concept has not be tested yet for GIS data.
-- mav
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