[OSM-talk] volcano craters in auckland - possibly out of copyright map

[Tim McNamara]

On 20 May 2010 16:57, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> i found a map on wikipedia from 1859, which i would assume makes it
> out of copyright and thus far game for copying data into osm

Fairly safe, in NZ copyright lasts until 50 years after the death of
the author. [1] You're probably even safer given that the Berne
Convention (that established copyright) was only signed in 1886.[2]

Tim

[1] http://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1994/0143/latest/DLM345932.html#DLM345932
[2] http://wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/summary_berne.html