Re: [Commons-l] Are models works or arts ?

However, I think that we should cut ourselves *some* slack in the depiction of copyrighted works. Very little can be photographed otherwise - a car or a piece of technical apparatus is designed, and thus copyrighted, and even photographing a person would be problematic, as you'll have to reckon with their clothing designer. Thus, allowing some depictions of copyrighted works should be allowable. On the other hand, there are also objects that we don't allow to be shown on pictures on commons, in particular sculpture. Maybe if we realize what the reason is to treat these differently (and I think we rightly do), it is easier to decide on which side scale models fall.