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> "Martin Underwood" wrote in message
> news:44467342$0$23169$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net...
> > Dave Pickles wrote in message 44465de3$0$210$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk:
> >
> >> Martin Underwood wrote:
> >>
> >>> By the way, what is the current period for things like OS maps: when
> >>> will maps published in the 1950s come out of copyright?
> >>
> >> 50 years from the end of the year of publication, so anything with a (C)
> >> 1955 or earlier is now out of copyright.
> >>
> >> http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/geofacts/geo0303.html
> >>
> >> However that only applies to the original published map. A copy or
> >> transcription can acquire its own copyright and start the clock ticking
> >> again.
> >
> > OK. So it's legal for me to post scanned copies that I make from an
> > original OS map, if the map has a publication date of 1955 or earlier? As
> > luck would have it, the two maps I'm thinking of say "Printed and
> > published by the Ordnance Survey 1954".
> >
> > One scary thing: the cost of the maps in 1954 was 3/- (15 pence). My more
> > recent maps of the same area, dated 1993, cost £4.25. So that's an
> > increase of (425-15)/15 = 2733% in 39 years or an average of 70% annual
> > inflation!
> Actually it turns out to be close to 8.9%. Still a lot, but within reason.
Less than books. Typical paperbacks that I purchased in the late 60s cost 2/6
- and now would be 6 or 7 pounds.
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