On 5/11/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/11/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@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