Thanks for your knowledgeable replies which reassure me that grid refs are
not copyright, but the 1995 court case is still perplexing. My source was a
news item from the Guardian and I can't find any accessible online source
which has the legal argument and details of the case. Does anyone know
Brian Prangle wrote:
> Are these covered by copyright?
The National Grid per se is not covered by copyright.
The newer transformations used to produce highly accurate grid references
may be, but in fact OS has licensed the most recent (OSTN15) under the
permissive BSD licence:
On 22/01/2019 16:20, Brian Prangle wrote:
Are these covered by copyright? I've found conflicting opinions:
The issue is not a grid ref itself as such, but the data tables
that are necessary to do a fully accurate conversion between OSGB
and WG84 (or any other coordinate system).
There is a
Are these covered by copyright? I've found conflicting opinions:
out of copyright in 1986 - since it was 50 years since the introduction of
the NG in 1936
and
"current case law supports this ownership, given in Ordnance Survey vs
Younger and others (Ch 10 April 1995), in which Sir Jeremy
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