[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Fri Sep 25 13:41:05 BST 2009


On 25/09/09 13:16, Dave F. wrote:

> I had an email conversation with the mapping officer from my local
> council. He intimated that the data relating to public rights of way,
> and its associated copyright, would belong to the Local Council. When
> they make a legal order to record a public right of way they send a copy
> of the order to the OS who then copy the line of the right of way onto
> their own maps.

In principle that is correct - the problem arises if the council has 
referred to an OS map in any way while defining the right of way. If 
they have then the OS will claim it is a derived work and infected by 
their copyright etc.

Tom

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