[OSM-talk] GPX tracing out of copyright maps

Nick Burch openstreetmap at gagravarr.org
Mon Nov 13 13:00:40 GMT 2006


On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Nick Hill wrote:
> 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.

Having just heard back from a friend who's a lawyer, I'm told that this is 
incorrect. For the UK:

"Yup, section 12(8)(a)(i) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
states that for literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works having
multiple authors, the term of protection is 70 years from the end of
the calendar year in which the last surviving author passes away.
There are no alterations of the term."

In the US, work done for hire (often work done for a company where the 
company gets the copyright), there's a different term (95 years) to that 
for work done for and by the creator (life+70).


I've updated the wiki page with this new information.

Nick




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