2012/7/19 Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl>

Op 19-7-2012 16:06, Matthew Roth schreef:

2. Does anyone have experience in other countries with monuments that are on the list but are still under copyright? Will we need to be clear that some of the sites on the Register in the U.S. are not eligible for the contest?

I guess this is a very small percentage.

In France there's noFOP and we've got some protected buildings that are still under copyright (as far as I know we don't know the exact number), we have started to use a special picture for them in the lists on wikipedia : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%C3%A2timent_droit_d%27auteur.svg saying that the building is copyrighted.

We also communicated about this topic with a blog post during the last competition : http://blog.wikimedia.fr/wiki-loves-monuments-et-le-droit-dauteur-3649 (in french, sorry). Our main problem was that the records describing buildings aren't always accurate and/or the architects aren't famous so for many 20th century buildings we don't really know if they are free or not.

Sylvain