<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/05/2012 08:19 AM, Karl Fogel
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:87ipbsijkn.fsf@floss.red-bean.com" type="cite">
My understanding (I am not a lawyer) is that copyright only
applies to
creative works -- specifically, to works resulting from human
creativity, or to the portion of a work that results from human
creativity. This is why, for example, the information in a phone
book cannot be
copyrighted, but a song reciting those numbers could be.<br>
</blockquote>
Or indeed, a work containing a creative form of organizing or
presenting the phone numbers could be copyrighted, while the data
could be <i>extracted from it</i> and would not be covered by
copyright.<br>
<br>
There is one thing to watch out for: do your tools embed the
copyrighted work of others in your work? It used to be that Inkscape
<i>did, </i>and the same has been true for other tools.<i> </i>In
the case of Inkscape, it placed a raster texture called "Sand" in
SVG works, and that texture was under Creative Commons Attribution
2.5 . Wikipedians were uploading SVG images to Wikipedia and
dedicating them to the public domain, but they had this embedded
texture that was <i>not </i>public domain.<br>
<br>
I think that Inkscape has since been cleaned up. You can see the
Wikimedia Commons discussion at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Licensing-for-textures-within-SVG-files-td1473913.html">http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Licensing-for-textures-within-SVG-files-td1473913.html</a><br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
Bruce<br>
<br>
<br>
</body>
</html>