[talk-au] Copyright questions

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:51 AM, John Henderson <snowgum at gmx.com> wrote:

>
> One route I'm thinking about is the Bicentennial National Trail.
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> http://www.nationaltrail.com.au/
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> Many signs have disappeared.  But some of is mapped in google (where
> it's given as the road name):
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> http://tinyurl.com/ya8bsvy
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>
>
Yeah, that's a curious one. I have some topo maps where it's marked in some
places (nearish Healesville), then it disappears again. Personally, I'd mark
it, but try not to be too "systematic" about it. Heh. It's a pretty dumb
situation really.

I sort of think...why is map of a route in a book copyright, if the route
itself isn't? Or to put it differently, why isn't the physical trail
copyright? It's just the same information as in the book, only thousands of
times larger.

Steve
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