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1. Re: National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues (Andrew Gray)

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:38:24 +0000 From: Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk Subject: Re: [Commons-l] National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: f3fedb0d0903230438m28cc450euc7a9d238db31b3e8@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

2009/3/22 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com:

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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!

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• Andrew Gray

andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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