[OSM-talk] Old maps from Royal Collection UK

[Colin Smale]

On 2020-02-06 21:10, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> The UK's Royal Collection [1 [1]] have placed online [2 [2]] George III's
> collection of military maps which, they say:
> 
> comprises some 3,000 maps, views and prints
> ranging from the disposition of Charles V's armies
> at Vienna in 1532 to the Battle of Waterloo (1815).
> 
> I'm sure these will be of interest to many OSM mappers.
> 
> Remarkably, though, they are claiming copyright over these maps.

As I read it, they are claiming copyright in the images on the website,
which is probably fair enough. I cannot see where they claim copyright
in the maps themselves. But they do have ownership on their side; can
they be forced to make the original maps available for someone else to
photograph/scan? 
  

Links:
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection
[2] https://militarymaps.rct.uk/
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