[Talk-GB] Ward boundaries from copyrighted maps

[Tom Higgy]

I think they are, Steve.

I'm about to go out and help deliver some neighbourhood forum leaflets 
in our ward. Although my dad is using the maps, I'm not and am going on 
where he says the boundaries are. If I use the trace (filtered, of 
course!) to see where our ward boundary is, does that constitute a 
derived work?

Cheers,

Steve Coast wrote:
> no
> 
> they're probably from
> 
> http://www.election-maps.co.uk/
> 
> 
> On 18 Oct 2007, at 13:05, Tom Higgy wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> For my dad's campaigning for the local branch of a certain major
>> political party, he has maps of local Birmingham ward boundaries.
>>
>> I've asked him about these and he says the maps themselves are
>> copyrighted but the ward boundaries are public since "people need to
>> know them."
>>
>> Is this true? More importantly, does getting the boundaries from these
>> maps constitute a derivative work? And would these be any way round this?
>>
>> My thought was I couldn't copy directly from the maps but I could use
>> them to work out what features these boundaries were on then follow with
>> a GPS (without having map with me).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tom.
>>
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> 
> have fun,
> 
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