On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
<emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Quote from full announcement
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f…
> We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to
> use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th,
> 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously
> gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the
> Public Domain.
The language used here confuses me. Given the age of the source
material and the lack of originality in a simple page-scan, wouldn't
the resulting images already be PD? Perhaps "release them back into
the Public Domain," would be better described as "release them to the
public" ?
--R