Ordnance Survey and Centrica, which owns the AA, have reached a £20m settlement to end a long-running copyright dispute over the AAs use of Ordnance Survey maps.
In a joint statement, the two organisations have announced a deal in which Ordnance Survey has agreed to license Centrica to use Ordnance Survey source material in future published material, and Centrica has agreed to pay £20m over two years.
The statement says Centrica has accepted allegations by Ordnance Survey that the AA used Ordnance Survey originals as source material to create its own maps and included them in its own publications and those prepared for other publishers. In all, more than 500 publications were involved, with more than 300 million individual copies printed.
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