On 22/02/12 21:46, Ian Sergeant wrote: > On 22 February 2012 09:15, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I just wish I had looked into this more or at least this was raised when >> I asked the list previously about the work I did extracting data from >> government maps >50yrs old but only scanned recently. >> > > > It would be nice if we had a policy position on it.
Yes, maybe we should forward this to legal-talk. I'm young and naive. An official policy from the Data Working Group would have helped me out in a decision on whether to use those scanned maps or not when I made those original contributions to OSM. > I've certainly seen > scans on Wikipedia that have been copied directly from the library sites in > direct contravention of the policies on the web pages themselves, I guess > under the banner of the WMF policy you state people feel free to ignore the > legals on the page. Yes, especially as Wikipedia claims such notices aren't enforceable anyway. > > Personally, I really doubt the libraries would care at all with the > out-of-copyright work being used for reference. However, in order to > republish their maps, I'm sure they expect permission to be applied for. > I'm not sure whether these sort of applications are approved as a matter of > course, or whether a fee or other restrictions are imposed. Maybe they > just want attribution, who knows.. However for my case, I didn't get the scans from a library. Rather directly from the government agency who made them. > As to whether they have the legal right to impose such conditions, who > knows. It is definitely a grey area, but if it was conclusive that they > couldn't, they I wouldn't have thought they would try. > > Ian. >
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