Re: [OSM-talk] Old maps from Royal Collection UK
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 20:30, Colin Smale wrote: > > On 2020-02-06 21:10, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > George III's collection of military maps > 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? Those images are flat reproductions of entire maps, not artistic renditions; for example: https://militarymaps.rct.uk/other-17th-century-conflicts/siege-of-vercelli-1617-lassedio-di-vercelli The UK Intellectual Property Office guidance says: According to the Court of Justice of the European Union which has effect in UK law, copyright can only subsist in subject matter that is original in the sense that it is the author’s own ‘intellectual creation’. Given this criteria, it seems unlikely that what is merely a retouched, digitised image of an older work can be considered as ‘original’. This is because there will generally be minimal scope for a creator to exercise free and creative choices if their aim is simply to make a faithful reproduction of an existing work. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Old maps from Royal Collection UK
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: -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection [2] https://militarymaps.rct.uk/___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Old maps from Royal Collection UK
The UK's Royal Collection [1] have placed online [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. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection [2] https://militarymaps.rct.uk/ -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
