Michael Snow wrote:
Klaus Graf wrote:
There are opinions on Commons that Moeller's
statement in this list
("[W]e've consistently held that faithful reproductions of
two-dimensional public domain works which are nothing more than
reproductions should be considered public domain for licensing
purposes") has been "overruled" by Mike Godwin's statement (which was
adressed on a Wikisource case)
See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#About_Bridgeman_vs…
I'm not offering a legal opinion on the underlying issue, but if I
follow the discussion correctly it shows absolutely no reason to think
Mike has "overruled" Erik on anything. The statement from Mike that is
being pointed to is about a different question entirely.
What's concerning
about this is that we are referring to a statement by
Mike on Anthere's Meta talk page. If he were providing legal advice to
the entire community would it not be more appropriate on a page
addressed to a more general population. Anybody can read anybody else's
talk page, but that is as much to enable dialogue between any two
persons. I still respect a kind of semi-private quality to personal
talk pages. That someone should derive a legal position based on
eavesdropping onto a personal talk page doesn't seem at all the best way
to go about this sort of thing.
Ec