[talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

[Patrick Jordan]

This is fairly definitive:
   http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/G090.pdf/view?searchterm=maps
maps remain in copyright until 70 years after the creator's death.

Patrick.



2009/1/19 Luke Woolley <lswoolley at gmail.com>:
> It seems to me that the "published edition" copyright only protects the
> layout of the actual work, for example if someone scanned a published
> edition of some kind from say 1976 then re-published it commercially, that
> would be a no-no. But since this is only deriving the data from it and
> publishing the data in a different format, it seems fine. If we can all
> agree that it is indeed safe to do this, then it would a big step forward in
> terms of source data for OSM.
> Since anything which was published before January 1, 1984 can supposedly be
> used, I have a 1984 Melways, edition 15 which could be scanned and hosted
> for use by Melbourne mappers which was published in September 1983. It could
> also be taken one step further and be included as a background layer in
> Potlatch, like the old maps of the UK are at the moment.
>
>
> On 18/01/2009, at 10:16 PM, Cameron <osm-mailing-lists at justcameron.com>
> wrote:
>
> My suggestion would be to seek some advice from someone who knows a bit more
> about copyright in Australia before copying something. The staff at
> libraries are usually trained to have some knowledge of it. I don't really
> know what a "published edition" is.
>
> Google brought this up -
> http://www.unimelb.edu.au/copyright/information/fastfind/publisheded.html
>
> ~Cameron
>
> 2009/1/18 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Liz wrote:
>> > > Do maps fall under "published editions" or "artistic works"? Cos that
>> > > will make a 25 year difference...
>>
>> No, I'm not a lawyer (phew)
>> we are certainly taking the view that a map is a collection of facts
>> and certainly not an artistic work
>> (although Steve did mention on legal-talk about one mapper's work of a
>> Pommie
>> town that should have been considered an artistic work)
>> I've just scanned a 1979 Gregory's of Wollongong.
>> Do I put it on my server?
>> I once had a 1980 Adelaide directory but binned it years ago as it got me
>> more
>> lost than was helpful. There should be directories which are old enough in
>> secondhand book shops.
>>
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