On 22/02/2012 9:46 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
On 22 February 2012 09:15, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]
<mailto:[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. 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.
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..
I've discussed this with the State Library of Victoria copyright
specialist before, and they had no problems or restrictions with
scanning/photographing out of copyright maps. It's probably worth
getting a proper OK from them each time you go in to get something though.
Matt
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