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		ForHackernews 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by T... If they want to control who uses the roundel logo, so be it, but I think it's absurd that copyright applies to the tube map itself. In the United States, government works like this would be public domain.

lou1306 6 months ago [–]

The map is a work of design in its own right, it is not a mere geographical representation. Also, while it would be nice if government work were public domain in the UK as it is in the US, that is sadly not the case, and we have to deal with it.

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