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Subject:        Sanborn maps
Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:52:30 -0500
From:   Boardman, Richard <[log in to unmask]>
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I'd like to get some feedback from libraries that have Sanborn Maps in
the collection, microfilm and/or hard copy or digital. How do you handle
requests for copies of Sanborns? Do you split them into pre-1923 (public
domain) and post-1923 (copyrighted) and make copies accordingly? Or do
you not make copies at all? Is there a "fair use" provision that would
allow, say, students to make copies for their school projects, as
opposed to a commercial company making copies for a client report?

Sanborn gives a student "discount" for copies but it's still very expensive.



In Philadelphia, the first Sanborn completed was for center city (1916).
By the time they completed the set, the northeast section of the city
was 1928. Does that mean that the 1916-23 copies are fair game but the
1928 (as well as later updates) is out as far as reproductions? Does the
fact that Pro-Quest produced the film under an agreement with pre-EDR
Sanborn have any bearing on this?



Thoughts, opinions, suggestions?  Please excuse the cross-posting. Thanks.



Rich Boardman

Map Collection

Free Library of Philadelphia