https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:37:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 https://www.maproomblog.com/2022/11/will-using-fullers-projection-get-you-in-trouble/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:37:09 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1809903 More]]> Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map: is the projection it uses patented, trademarked or copyrighted to the extent that you have to pay a licencing fee or face a lawsuit? Daniel Huffman digs into this very question, which apparently has been circulating around the cartographic world for some time. “Here’s the summary of what I’ve concluded: if you don’t pay a license fee before you publish a map that uses the Fuller projection, you may find yourself hearing from the projection’s ‘owner.’ At the same time, I don’t think that the owner (the Buckminster Fuller Institute) has any rights that would actually hold up in court.”

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