its more legal/copyright descriptive, that necessitates the wording than
just release them to the public which can still indicate they have
restrictions
On 16 December 2013 11:46, Robinson Tryon <bishop.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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