Bloody hell! Now we can't even use an edition 1 Melway until 2036 now : (. I could shoot off a email to Melway asking if we could use any of their ancient maps for OpenStreetMap purposes. But I doubt it.
On 19/01/2009, at 5:00 PM, Jack Burton <j...@saosce.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 16:23 +1100, Patrick Jordan wrote: >> This is fairly definitive: >> >> http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/G090.pdf/view?searchterm=maps >> maps remain in copyright until 70 years after the creator's death. > > Umm, doesn't that mean that the 1940 vintage street directory that > originally started this thread is still under copyright? > > (unless of course, it was published at least one year (given that it's > 2009 now) after the death of the last surviving contributing > author/cartographer/editor/guy who designed the cover/...) > > (or unless a street directory is not classed as a map - but that > would > seem rather odd, although stranger things have happened) > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
