copyright
Use of copyrighted material for creating a commercial product
<p>In a hypothetical scenario, Mr. Peter writes a book about tree types in a certain geographical area. He creates a commercial products. Can he use another commercial product that is copyrighted, e.g. a map of a location (the map is a political map and has nothing to do with trees), for his tree research purposes, if such a map won't be part of the book he works on?</p>
<p>jurisdiction: EU country</p>

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<p>Can he use another commercial product that is copyrighted, e.g. a map
of a location (the map is a political map and has nothing to do with
trees), for his tree research purposes, if such a map won't be part of
the book he works on?</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Copyright protects particular expressions of ideas and knowledge, not the ideas and knowledge themselves.</p>
<p>Using a map for research purposes when the map or a modified version of it does not appear in the final work does not make the final work a &quot;derivative work&quot; covered by copyright.</p>
