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Subject:        Scanned map copyright question
Date:   Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:07:33 +0000
From:   Mary Whelan <[log in to unmask]>
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I’m hoping someone on the list can provide guidance on this question.

An archaeology professor is starting a project where he is starting with
published books (about archaeological sites in Central America),

·scanning the plan maps of architectural monuments from the books
(temples, pyramids, etc.),

·georeferencing the scans using GIS software,

·digitizing the georeferenced scans by hand to create a GIS vector file

·slightly modifying the GIS vector file to eliminate lines that they
don’t want (not wall or architectural detail changes, but eliminating
lines from the figure in the book.

His question is, does he need copyright permission from the book
publisher for each map?  Or, because he is digitizing and editing
(slightly), is citing the original source enough?

Thanks in advance for any answers you can provide,

Mary

Mary Whelan, Ph.D.

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/Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services/

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