As some of you know I have recently completed a guide book to the prehistoric monuments of The Peak District for my MA. In the process of contacting publishers etc. I have just received an interesting email from The National Trust (see below).

Now, I am aware that the maps I have created in the book may be too close for comfort to the OS Explorer maps I used to locate the sites. My idea was that the maps in the book should never be used in isolation, but used in conjunction with the OS series and I have always thought that somewhere along the way I would have to change the maps either to use the actual OS maps (expensive) or rework so they don't infringe copyright, but I wasn't aware that including photographs that I took myself of the monuments could also be a problem:

"...The project is very well conceived and designed, although there are a number of concerns that I have about permissions for reuse/sourcing material. This relates to permisson from OS to use their maps as sources and ditto permission from landowners (including the Trust) to take photography on their land and use it for a commercial purpose - ie a book..."

Anyone have any thoughts etc? Anyone run into this kind of stuff before? It's mostly the photography aspect that I am interested in as I know the maps are 'ify' at present!

You can see pics of the book if you need to at the link below. Click on The Prehistoric Peak link:

http://www.andrewjohnstonedesign.co.uk

P.S. It might be worth noting that the vast majority of the sites in the book are located on Access Land where permission to go and see them was not required and where it was on private land I did get verbal permission each time.