On 5/11/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/11/06, Anthony DiPierro
<wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
One GPS coordinate isn't subject to
copyright. A collection of ones
that someone finds interesting probably is.
What if I cherry pick from their list of 50 co-ordinates the 20 or so
that *I* find interesting. Is that a derivative work?
Steve
Maybe (if I answered that I'd really be giving legal advice). But if
you took 10 different lists of 50 co-ordinates and put them in one
list, then picked the 20 or so that you find interesting from that big
list (maybe even reducing the number of significant digits in the
coordinates first), it might be less likely to be a derivative (I
still would feel uncomfortable giving a direct yes or no answer,
though).
And if 20 different people working independently each pick one
co-ordinate, that might not constitute copying or preparation of a
derivative.
Between copying one and copying the whole list, it's pretty grey area.
Even copying the whole list is grey area.
Anthony