[Talk-us-massachusetts] New/expanded map for Elizabeth How / Echo Reservation, Ipswich

[Greg Troxel]

Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu> writes:

> Towns are required to make their data available at cost of
> reproduction. That information is in the public domain

Do you have a citation?  I'm curious to read the law myself.   (It has
never been clear to me that public records and coypright interacted.)

> If a volunteer makes a map but doesn’t explicitly give it to the town
> or declare it public domain, then they would retain copyright.

Agreed.

> If all you are doing is tracing lines from maps, that wouldn’t
> infringe on copyright because it is extracting data rather than a
> creative representation that is copyrightable (IMHO).

Perhaps, but OSM policy is not to push that point.
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