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I wonder if that is considered a copyright violation. The customer is giving you X and you are giving back Y. But Y is not copyright. It could be considered a d
by fy20 4y ago
I wonder if that is considered a copyright violation. The customer is giving you X and you are giving back Y. But Y is not copyright. It could be considered a derivative work, but what if you change Y, so it's a couple of degrees off on the HSV scale?
- kuschku 4y agoIt's exactly this mapping which is what pantone owns and licenses, reproducing it is very likely going to be illegal.
- nine_k 4y agoI immediately remember encrypted, region-locked DVDs and the oppressed but often open-source tools to counteract it, like DeCSS. Early 2000s were fun!
- zinekeller 4y ago> But Y is not copyright. In a similar vein, phonebooks. The answer... is complicated. There is a thing called "database rights", which as you might guess is a mess. The US argues that there is no right as you've simply compiled information (see Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., and that's why I used phonebooks as an analogy) while Europe (not just EU, even UK and Russia) do recognize database rights. Even skipping about it, Pantone named them, which could give them copyright protection in the US (and other countries without specific database rights). Wikipedia about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right