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quick (?) copyright question
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While I can't really answer my original question, the point is rendered moot insofar as the same maps are available through the library of the University of Texas at Austin; these scans are explicitly placed in the public domain, so I shall use those.
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I would take what Heritage History say with a very large tub of salt.
Without looking into it further, I would tend to assume that the text on the website is original, and therefore copyrightable by Heritage History. However, some of the images and maps do not seem to have been created by Heritage History, and are displayed without attribution of the original artist/cartographer. If the copyright on these images and maps is expired, and therefore in the public domain, they are permitted to publish them without paying a rights fee, but it does not entitle them to do so without attribution. In other words, I am not convinced that Heritage History themselves are abiding by copyright law.
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They claim they hold copyright to the image files because they scanned the maps. But yes, I noticed the maps are not attributed (except by examining the filenames) and the maps appear changed from the original. There seem to be some questionable things going on at Heritage History and I shall stay away from their images.
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