[OSM-talk] GPX tracing out of copyright maps

Nick Hill nick at nickhill.co.uk
Sat Nov 11 15:47:20 GMT 2006


Hi Nick, I am not holding it up as an absolute authority, and UK copyright law 
is somewhat complex.

However, on page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Out-of-copyright_maps
It says for company produced maps (such as this) copyright persists 70 years 
after the end of the calendar year it was produced. According to that rationale, 
it would have fallen out of copyright at the beginning of 2005.

Of course, it would be great to have references to law and case-law from the 
out-of-copyright map page.

Nick Burch wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Nick Hill wrote:
>> I have good scans of the out of copyright 1934 philips road map of 
>> London.
> 
> I doubt that this map is actually out of copyright. 




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