[OSM-talk] GPX tracing out of copyright maps

[lars]

Nick Burch wrote:

> maps are crown copyright, which lasts for 50 years. Any other maps will be 
> covered by the normal UK copyright rules on literary and artistic works, 
> which is 70 years after the death of the last surviving (major[1]) 
> author/creator.
> 
> [1] There's lots of case law on this, about how much of a contribution
>       someone will need to have made to a work to qualify for copyright
>       protection of their contribution


Is there indeed case law on the copyright of *maps* with regard to 
the 70 year rule?  Was there any case where a 70 year old map was 
copied and this was found by a court of law to be a copyright 
violation because the cartographer hadn't yet been dead for 70 
years?  I'd be interested to learn of any such cases in Britain or 
other countries.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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