2009/3/30 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
My question is, will it be acceptable when a museum or archive provides us with their material and when we learn about a request to take down material, we do this when requested by the copyright holder. This is not considered an issue with Flickr !!
A museum should be having no problem providing us with material in these two scenarios:
1. The image is PD 2. The image is subject to copyright and the museum owns all required rights of usage/copyrights to release the image under a free license
If the image is subject to copyright and the museum is unable to provide these rights of usage, it is not suitable for Wikimedia Commons.
Mathias