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News Release from: British Association for Print and Communication | Subject: Online Map
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 January 2006
New Service Avoids Map Use Legal
Trapdoor
The BAPC has claimed that there is now a simple way of gaining accurate, editable and legal maps for reproduction.
The BAPC has claimed that there is now a simple way of gaining accurate, editable and legal maps for reproduction The BAPC - the British Association for Print and Communication - said that reproducing maps within printed materials has long been a tricky issue
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 26 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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For the most part the legalities have been widely misunderstood, with print and design companies taking images from the internet, or existing maps and then either copying the map or using the originals as templates for tracing.
The problem is that both methods are illegal and infringe on copyright.
The situation has not been about deliberate dishonesty, but about an information gap when it comes to knowing how to source legally licensed maps, added BAPC.
In the past, acquiring an official licence has been expensive, time consuming, and complicated.
However, the BAPC said it has taken action to address the issue.
The association became aware of the seriousness of the problem through recent high profile court cases where companies have been fined considerable sums after being found guilty of infringing copyright.
Following a year of negotiations with Ordnance Survey, and in partnership with the mapping experts at Location Maps, the BAPC has arrived at a solution that is both easy to use and realistic in price, it claimed.
The Online Map purchasing system is said to be straightforward to use.
Users just have to input the postcode of the required location, then choose the scale, size and resolution (depending upon whether the map will be used for digital, lithographic or on-line reproduction).
The user then sees a proof, allowing them to edit and refine the map parameters.
As soon as on-line payment is confirmed, a digital map file is sent automatically to the purchasers' email address, together with an invoice and certificate of royalty payment.
Sidney Bobb, BAPC Chairman, said: "It is of vital importance that we as an association address issues that protect our members, especially when you consider that the use of maps is so common.
What's more, our members have tested this system and they tell us that the cost of downloading a legal, editable map is a fraction of that cost of creating one from scratch." The Online Map service is now live and is accessible through the BAPC website.
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