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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the
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David Gerard wrote:
2009/9/28 <wiki-lists(a)phizz.demon.co.uk>uk>:
From the earlier poster Teofilo:
I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.
That sets it out as a goal, not a demand.
"There is no need to negociate anything. There is no need
to change a single word from the current French copyright
law. Simply have the French government's cultural institutions
(museums, archives) recognize that they have been wrong until now"
just doesn't read like a goal, its a demand.
But getting back to the case in question - we're
talking about the
sort of museum that's actually a government sub-department. Thus,
public domain images that the taxpayer has *already paid for*. I see
nothing whatsoever unreasonable about the idea of asking-to-demanding
those. They're owned by the public, not by the museum bureaucrats.
<<Whilst those digitalizations they may be owned by the French public,
they certainly aren't owned by the German public, British, Italian,
Spanish, or American public either.>>
"The public" doesn't have national boundaries.
"The public" means all of the public, here there and elsewhere.
W.J.