[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?

[Mike Harris]

... Except from definitive maps based on OS mapping that is more than 50
years old (see my earlier message) - and I suspect that quite a lot of it
is.

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Whitelegg [mailto:Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk] 
> Sent: 28 September 2009 14:23
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?
> 
> >Bear in mind that "public domain" meaning "free of copyright" is a US
> term.
> >The traditional UK meaning is quite different.
> 
> >In the UK, if you say "the map is now in the public domain", 
> that means
> that
> >the map is now available to the public - i.e. it's not solely an 
> >internal publication. It does not have any implications about 
> >copyright. Indeed,
> the
> >map may well still be copyrighted.
> 
> Coincidentally I have just had a meeting with someone from 
> one of the local councils who is interested in using OSM data 
> for their online services. I brought up this issue and he 
> explicitly said that the coordinates of the footpaths on the 
> definitive map were derived from Ordnance Survey data. So 
> this seems to be a definitive statement that you can't copy 
> courses of paths from definitive maps.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
>