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Article: Maps and copyright. (Copyright Corner).
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- November 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Special Libraries Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Geographical maps have been eligible for copyright protection in the United States from the first copyright statute in 1790. To qualify for protection, a map has to meet the standard requirements for copyright found in Section 102(a) of the Copyright Act. It must be an original work of authorship, which means that the cartographer (deemed the "author" for copyright purposes) did not copy the work from someone else. Included in the originality requirement is a creativity standard--the work must possess at least minimal creativity in order to satisfy the originality requirement. The second requirement is fixation. A work must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression, now ...
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