Question on creating new symbols ?

Question

Good Afternoon everyone from Colorado,

As I am working on creating new layers, add new symbols, eltcetera ,    to try and go align  with the Monarch Ski Areas...

My question to you is it legal for me to copy and create a new symbol to match with this "Welcome to Monarch Mountain" 's poster.  This poster is a skewed and is not a real world.

Now if you look at the Map Key in the poster and it is at the lower right side of the poster. What  I would like to do is copy and paste these and then creating them into a new symbols .....

What would I do is open up the pdf of this poster and zoom into the Map Key  section I showed it you above with the six on the list..

So using the OneNote and use the "Take Screen clipping" and it saves to Mircosoft OneNote:

Then save it as a PNG file.

See here :

and add them to ArcMap  using this Creating new styles—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Would that work ?

Do you have any recommend before I dive into them ?

BTW, I do not see any copyright stamped on this poster and should I be concern if I do ?  Should I asked the company who created them and asked for an copy ?

Thoughts ????

DEAF_PROBERT_68 · Answer

Thanks for the replying on this.. It would be nice if others who read this and have the similar situation I'd like to hear on that as well.

ChrisDonohue__GISP · Answer

I'm not a lawyer, so can't say with absolute certainty, but my guess would be that if you make your own symbology in ArcGIS that is similar to what others have used, it is probably OK unless you made it exactly as someone else did.  For example, I would stay away from using any very distinctive elements that were used in the original.

I don't know if we have someone familiar with the finer points of this issue on GeoNet - if so I'd be curious also to hear what the specifics are on this issue.

Chris Donohue, GISP

DEAF_PROBERT_68 · Answer

I have a question for you So, if you have a legend that you wanted to copy to use for the legend but We know  it is against the US copyright law as you described it above. What if you create a font to build and use the style to be use the the legend. Would that be considering against the US Copyright law if you create one that is almost look-like the symbol ?