[talk-au] [OSM Fork] Geoscience Australia Gazetteer 2010

[Matt White]

On 22/02/2012 9:46 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> On 22 February 2012 09:15, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I just wish I had looked into this more or at least this was
>     raised when
>     I asked the list previously about the work I did extracting data from
>     government maps >50yrs old but only scanned recently.
>
>
>
> It would be nice if we had a policy position on it.  I've certainly 
> seen scans on Wikipedia that have been copied directly from the 
> library sites in direct contravention of the policies on the web pages 
> themselves, I guess under the banner of the WMF policy you state 
> people feel free to ignore the legals on the page.
>
> Personally, I really doubt the libraries would care at all with the 
> out-of-copyright work being used for reference. However, in order to 
> republish their maps, I'm sure they expect permission to be applied 
> for.  I'm not sure whether these sort of applications are approved as 
> a matter of course, or whether a fee or other restrictions are 
> imposed.  Maybe they just want attribution, who knows..
I've discussed this with the State Library of Victoria copyright 
specialist before, and they had no problems or restrictions with 
scanning/photographing out of copyright maps. It's probably worth 
getting a proper OK from them each time you go in to get something though.

Matt


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