2009/3/22 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com:
The original painting is certainly NOT public domain - but what about the copyright status of a photograph that you or I might take of that painting? That is the question.
You can't turn a copyrighted work into a free one by... *making a copy of it*.
Once you put it like that, it seems quite simple :-) Unfortunately, explaining that has historically been an uphill struggle!