[fsckboy]

>SVG content copyright to the person creating the SVG.

um... no. In the US, you can't take an image that I have a copyright to and turn it into an SVG and distribute it such that web browsers will render it into a facsimile of the image I own without infringing my copyright. It would be on you, not on the person viewing it.

At best you've created a derivative work that you can stop me from distributing and I'd have to make my own SVG. Of course, you wouldn't even have a license to send me a copy of your SVG, so I'd have to create my own anyway.

[jagged-chisel]

You intentionally overlooked the parenthetical. I didn’t say the copyright on the rendered image would go to the SVG creator. There are, I’m sure, many creative ways to specify in SVG source how an image is rendered. Those commands, tags, whatever text directs the renderer are created from a creative process. The copyright for the final SVG text is indeed held by the creator.

That does not mean the rendered image copyright is held by the SVG creator.