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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:33:54 -0600
From: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Map Copyright Question <fwd>
Sender: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>



>Can an academic publication use as a cover illustration an image of a map
>produced in 1545?

Yes.

It got a little tricky to calculate the "safe harbor" date in the last
couple of decades, but anything published prior to roughly 1920 is now in
the public domain.

One caution, though: you mention reproducing not directly from the map but
from an intermediate source (a book?).  The copyright holder of that
intermediate source has a copyright covering his compilation of materials,
and (less likely) the photographer who did the copy work of the map might
claim a copyright on the photo.

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Dennis McClendon, Chicago CartoGraphics
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