On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
<emijrp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Quote from full announcement
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html
>
>> 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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