<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Rick,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Having spent a number of years with schematics, I can attest to the fact that they</div><div class="">are an expression of creativity just as a map or book are. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was easy to tell the style of the engineer who drew the particular schematic if </div><div class="">you have a number of examples of their style. Much like an artist has a particular</div><div class="">visual style. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When in charge of engineers, I had specific requirements for the schematics that</div><div class="">they submitted. Some were not functional, but stylistic. For example, several </div><div class="">segments of the circuit may have the same ground, but drawing connections </div><div class="">between different functional sections in order to share a ground symbol was</div><div class="">a no go for aesthetic reasons as well as it would make it easy to trace via the</div><div class="">ground and go to the other functionally unrelated section. When I submitted </div><div class="">a schematic for a portion of a design to the engineer to show them what I </div><div class="">wanted or as a suggestion, it was easy to tell my style from his when he </div><div class="">incorporated my schematic into his.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ross</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 21, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" class="">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">It is not obvious to me that a PCB schematic has a lot of creativity in</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">the form or manner of expression of its drawing. You do not look at a</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">schematic and say 'Hey, that looks like a Leonardo di Vinci schematic; I</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">recognise his style!'. So, I would imagine that redrawing any schematic </span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">means you are applying your own creativity to its expression, if it even</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">makes sense to say that a schematic is a creative work of expression at</span><br class=""><span class="" style="float: none; display: inline !important;">all.</span></div></blockquote></div></body></html>