On 2 March 2013 19:28, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
On 2 March 2013 12:04, Fae
<faewik+commons(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2. Text on a memorial may be under its own
copyright even though it is
on permanent public display, so the text itself must be demonstrably
out of copyright. This is a separate issue from the general FOP
provisions. If the text is incidental to the photograph, i.e. not a
close up and the text is effectively de minimus, then FOP is likely to
be valid.
One other thing to remember: most of this text is fairly uncreative -
in many cases, standard phrases or dates, and lists of names. We could
make a reasonably good case that they are unlikely to be copyrightable
texts regardless of age.
That's true, and I have uploaded plenty of my own photos of war
memorials with close up details of names, rank and so forth. However I
have run into problems with memorial statements that contain poetry,
simple drawings and original dedications and some of these have been
deleted despite me being reasonably cautious. I still think this is
solvable with some simple guidelines/principles for those taking part
in an event to take care to avoid any later problems with uploads.
Cheers,
Fae