Kent Solicitors

Ordnance Survey provides maps. You can download them on-line and you need to be licensed /have an account with them

In a recent case, a defendant company employed a student during the vacation. His university had a license - for the purposes of research - and he had a username and password.

Whilst working with the defendant company, the student used it to download maps to further his own studies (as he was entitled to do) but also for the business.

After the student left the defendant company, the latter (without the formers knowledge) continued to use his username / password (retained on their computer system) to obtain maps.

This was a clear breach of copyright by the defendant company

Labels: Copyright intellectual property