On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Sylvain Machefert <
smachefert@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>