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Hi,
>> Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
>>> This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an ICC
>>> descriptive, rather than creative?
According to the International Color Consortium, profiles provide
content that “vendor […] can copyright.” [0]
0: http://www.color.org/faqs.xalter#p14
Regards
David
P.-S.: Full quote of the FAQ item for d-d readers benefits follows.
Q. Are profiles copyrighted?
A. ICC has no formal position on the use of profiles. It is really up to
the software vendor. However, since the software vendor effectively
holds copyright on the profile (which is specified in a tag) the licence
to use their software permits them to prohibit public posting of
profiles. One of their motivations could be that if such profiles could
be freely exchanged it would limit the number of sales of their
software. Also, from a technical perspective it is dangerous to publish
such profiles for many devices. A profile for a printer, for example, is
only valid for the substrate and inks for which it was made and it is
for this reason that few device manufacturers publish profiles for their
devices.
Any ICC profile is produced using proprietary software. All ICC define
is the nature of the tags, which tags are mandatory and which are
optional, and how the data should be defined in them. The contents of
the tables are vendor specific and each uses different algorithms. It is
this that gives the vendor something which they can copyright.
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