[talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

[Liz]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Jack Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 16:23 +1100, Patrick Jordan wrote:
> > This is fairly definitive:
> >   
> > http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/G090.pdf/view?searchte
> >rm=maps maps remain in copyright until 70 years after the creator's death.
>
> Umm, doesn't that mean that the 1940 vintage street directory that
> originally started this thread is still under copyright?
>
> (unless of course, it was published at least one year (given that it's
> 2009 now) after the death of the last surviving contributing
> author/cartographer/editor/guy who designed the cover/...)
>
> (or unless a street directory is not classed as a map -  but that would
> seem rather odd, although stranger things have happened)
>
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ahh but next paragraph
the information in maps and charts (for example, names and distances between
geographical features depicted), which is NOT protected by copyright
expression of information in a
particular map or chart (for example, selection of what to include, the colour 
schemes, symbols, labels, keys and contour lines), which IS protected by 
copyright.

so it is even more complicated

this whole page is worth reading and referencing on the main wiki

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       Ideas, information, and styles are NOT protected
Copyright does not protect ideas, information, styles or techniques in 
copyright works.
Maps and charts relating to the same geographical area will usually resemble 
each other. However, there is an
important distinction between the information in maps and charts (for example, 
names and distances between
geographical features depicted), which is not protected by copyright, and the 
expression of information in a
particular map or chart (for example, selection of what to include, the colour 
schemes, symbols, labels, keys and
contour lines), which is protected by copyright.
As noted above, compilations of information (for example, lists of places of 
interest) are also protected by
copyright.
If you are creating a map or chart and wish to minimise your risk of 
infringing copyright in existing works, see
below under the heading Substantial part.
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