On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cameron wrote: > I have recently been into the SA state library and found an out of > copyright SA street directory (from the 40s.) They had both Fuller's and > Gregory's directories but the Gregory's were far easier to read and thus, > to copy.
Important matter on copyright duration I realised only very recently that we haven't been reading the rules correctly and published material - the street directory, the paper map, expires after 25 years at midnight on the next New Years Eve Published editions The rule for duration of copyright in a published edition 25 years from the end of the year of first publication; the AUSFTA did not change this rule. source http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/G023.pdf so at the end of 2008 we can use published material from any time up to and including all of 1983. this of course doesn't mean its correct - it may still have changed or never been right at all _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au