[OSM-talk] GPX tracing out of copyright maps
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Mon Nov 13 13:08:42 GMT 2006
Quoting Nick Burch <openstreetmap at gagravarr.org>:
> 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."
:(
I think (from a brief-ish reading of the legislation) that the
difference here is between "joint authorship" and "unknown
authorship". Joint ownership is 70 years after the death of the last
surviving author, unknown authorship is 70 years after the year in
which the work was published. What does a map like the ABC count as?
Well, I guess it depends whether we/Philips could identify any of the
original authors or not...
Richard
(scurrying off to abebooks to find Ordnance Survey streetmaps of London)
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