On 2 March 2013 12:04, Fae <faewik+commons(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2. Text on a memorial may be under its own copyright
even though it is
on permanent public display, so the text itself must be demonstrably
out of copyright. This is a separate issue from the general FOP
provisions. If the text is incidental to the photograph, i.e. not a
close up and the text is effectively de minimus, then FOP is likely to
be valid.
One other thing to remember: most of this text is fairly uncreative -
in many cases, standard phrases or dates, and lists of names. We could
make a reasonably good case that they are unlikely to be copyrightable
texts regardless of age.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk