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<DIV>Thank you for the clarification. Perhaps the original requester could find
the map on line at one of the government sites that Mr Preston mentioned as his
sources. The page that the map is on gives no indication of its source but if I
am allowed the liberty of assuming something, I would be willing to lay good
odds that it came from the Archives Division of the Oregon State Library because
in one spot he mentions that the maps in this book have been reproduced from
maps which are on file at the Archives Divison of the Oregon State
Library.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Ray Powell</DIV>
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<A title=LinLouVan@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 24, 2008 9:02
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Historical maps -
1851 Willamette Valley</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 8/24/2008 8:30:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, <A
href="mailto:rayp6217@comcast.net">rayp6217@comcast.net</A> writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>For
myself, I do not plan to publish anything, but as for the possible copy of
the 1851 map for another lister, I can find no original copyright holder to
contact. What little I know (or think I know) about copyright law, would
indicate that the map, itself, has become public domain even if it was
originally copyrighted. If anyone has any further info oncopyright and the
length of time a copyright lasts and if and how many times it can be
renewed, I think it would be pertinent to Oregon genealogy as all of us are
always making photocopies of pictures and documents for our research and a
few even plan to publish their work.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>As I understood the original requester, it was for a photocopy of a map
from a copyrighted book.</DIV>
<DIV>Even though the map itself might have been a government map and in the
public domain, the book</DIV>
<DIV>itself (or that particular compilation of maps) was copyrighted. That
copyright would last 50 years </DIV>
<DIV>past the author's death -- or 75 years, unless renewed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The other thing the original requester stated was that this was to go
into a work that is being</DIV>
<DIV>published. There is where the care needs to be taken. Copying a single
page from a book for one's</DIV>
<DIV>personal genealogy (with proper citations) is usually classed as "fair
use". However, publishing</DIV>
<DIV>is quite another thing.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am certainly not a copyright authority, but I do have at my genealogy
desk a copy of "The Copyright</DIV>
<DIV>Handbook, How to protect & Use Written Works" by attorney Stephen
Fishman, Fourth Edition published in 1997.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Recently in our community, there was interest in using a lithographed
fair poster from a 1914 event,</DIV>
<DIV>altering the image and using it as new. I just happened to see that it
originally came from Fair</DIV>
<DIV>Publishing Co., went on line and found that the company started in 1880
and has been continuously</DIV>
<DIV>in business since that time. I contacted them and, indeed they still own
the rights to that lithographed</DIV>
<DIV>image. They would reproduce and sell it to us again, but we could not
reproduce and alter it.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Linda VanOrden</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR>
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