[WikiEN-l] Application of the {{pd-art}} tag

[Mark Wagner]

On 4/11/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/11/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In other words, basically every public-domain image except PD-self and
> > some PD-USGov.
>
> Not at all.
>
> Bridgeman v. Corel only applies when you are using a copy (scan, book
> print, etc) made by someone else, and that copy, if able to be
> independently copyrighted, would still be in copyright.
>
> If you own, or can get your hands on without signing a restrictive
> license, the original work or a copy which is itself old enough to be
> out of copyright, then it does not apply.

That's the theory.  In practice, the majority of our "public domain
because of age" images were grabbed off the Internet somewhere, so
someone other than the uploader did the scanning.

--
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]