[OSM-legal-talk] ABC Street Atlas

[Peter Miller]

On 16 Jul 2009, at 20:11, Ed Avis wrote:

> <http://www.spatialknowledge.eu/ABCAtlas/openlayers.html> is a scan  
> of the
> London 'ABC Street Atlas' from 1933/34.  It is suggested on the OSM  
> wiki as
> a data source; is it judged okay to copy information such as street  
> names and
> layout from this atlas into OSM?

ianal, however a lawyer told me that copyright for maps is complex. I  
understand that crown copyright has a simple cut of date but that for  
other works is can be hard to determine. As such, if the map is  not  
crown copyright then it may be best not to use it as a source.

Curious that the people who put it on the web claim copyright?



Regards,



Peter



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