2007/8/3, Uber Halogen <uberhalogen(a)googlemail.com>om>:
IIRC one of the reasons money was removed is because
even if the money
is not copyrighted there all still 'unfree' restrictions imposed upon
it. For example if you printed it out you could probably get
prosecuted.
Well, if you print one of those:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bills_of_the_United_States
you get in trouble too :)
As I remember, main reason for Polish money was that National Bank of
Poland states, they are copyrighted:
http://www.nbp.pl/home.aspx?f=disclaimer_banknoty.htm
According to analysis in Rzeczpospolita, NBP is wrong.
"Unfree restrictions" on money are IMHO similar to restrictions of
personal identity, trademark, etc. If copyright restriction is invalid
in this case, we could handle non-copyright restrictions by putting
warning template.
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