[CivicAccess-discuss] copyright issues with extracting data from city report

[Regie Alam]

Hello everyone,

   My name is Regie Alam. I work as a GIS Data Analyst
at Terrapoint in Ottawa. I just signed up to the
mailing list and this is my first post.

   I am in the process of digitizing boundaries of
Urban Natural Areas in Ottawa. I'm digitizing off maps
contained in a report made by a contractor to the City
of Ottawa. My intent is to display the digitized maps
on the internet using a webmapping program or Google
Earth.

   This is not a commercial endeavour but just a way
to make the data more accessible (through webmapping
platform).

   What are the copyright issues involved with this?
What about specifically for extracting (and presenting
the data in another medium) data/maps off a report to
the city?

   I already contacted the contact person for the
report and she said the city won't be able to support
this project. She also gave me a snippet of the
Canadian Copyright Law regarding the internet and
copyright.

Thanks,
Regie