Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
I've got one more question on our Lindisfarne Gospels image. Since it would almost certainly be "protected" under British law I wonder if the [[Berne Convention]] would require the United States to uphold this protection.
Not at all. Even assuming that the museum's dubious claims were upheld by British courts, the operating principle in the US would be not to give greater protection than would be available in a comparable situation in the US, i.e. of source material owned by a US museum. The US courts have already gone further in determining the non-copyrightability of such materials.
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