[Openstreetmap] Re: Where can I get old street maps?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:

> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
> > As per previous discussions, my reading of current copyright law
> > would be that such a facsimile publication is copyrighted as a
> > photograph,
>
> No, this should not be the case for facsimile reprints.  Whether
> you scan the reprint or the original doesn't change the result.
> Nobody can tell from the digital image which print you scanned.

Whether or not you can tell, that doesn't make it legal.

Any photograph is copyrightable under CDPA 4.1.a: "In this Part "artistic work"
means – (a) a graphic work, photograph, sculpture or collage, irrespective of
artistic quality".

In Sweden YMMV, of course.

Richard

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