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Euro note map copyright claim

  • 19-05-2014 9:20am
    #1
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone know if this came to anything?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1779978.stm

    Basically a French company said that the map of Europe used on Euro notes was their copyright and was used illegally.


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  • #2
    micosoft
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭micosoft


    Maps can't be copyrighted as they are representations of fact but the errors can.

    In fact, cartographers used to setup copyright traps by inventing fictional locations on map - being fiction that could be copyright. There was a famous Agloe, NY case where Esso was sued by rand McNally when a fictional town trap set by Rand appeared on an Esso road map. However the judge in the case asked for pictures of the location (a road intersection) stranger then fiction somebody had decided to setup a store in the location named the Agloe Stores based on the fictional name....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York

    Hard to say on such a small representation that they could determine such imperfection - Agloe was obvious.


  • #3
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    Thanks for the reply micosoft.

    There was a fictional place in Lancashire called Argleton that appeared on Google Maps a few years ago.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argleton


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