On 20 May 2010 16:57, Robin Paulson <robin.paul...@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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk