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From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Mar 8 06:54:23 2002

> I suspect the practicality is that, although technically feasable to convert
> to a DVD, _copyright_ issues prevent any commercial project from
> doing so (starting with the arm and a leg than ordnance survey would charge
> for the map data, and following with the impossibility of contacting all the
> other copyright holders) and the amount of work required (and legal
> minefield) being too much for a hobby project.

Has "migrating a copyrighted work from an older decaying
medium to a newer stable medium" had a court test already?

-dq
 
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