On 1/11/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure what the legal issues would be with
taking them straight
off the net, anyway. It looks like the BBC means free as in beer, not
speech. While the copyright on a 16th century map has almost certainly
expired, the scanned version of it might be copyrighted (I'm no
expert, but I'm sure someone here can tell me whether or not scanned
images are copyrightable). The site doesn't seem to say what the
copyright status is.
It's probably best to contact them directly.
Looks like these are in the clear.
"Northwestern does not claim any copyright to these images or the
original maps."
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/mapsofafrica/contac…