Michael Snow wrote:
Klaus Graf wrote:
There are opinions on Commons that Moeller's statement in this list ("[W]e've consistently held that faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works which are nothing more than reproductions should be considered public domain for licensing purposes") has been "overruled" by Mike Godwin's statement (which was adressed on a Wikisource case)
See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#About_Bridgeman_vs....
I'm not offering a legal opinion on the underlying issue, but if I follow the discussion correctly it shows absolutely no reason to think Mike has "overruled" Erik on anything. The statement from Mike that is being pointed to is about a different question entirely.
What's concerning about this is that we are referring to a statement by Mike on Anthere's Meta talk page. If he were providing legal advice to the entire community would it not be more appropriate on a page addressed to a more general population. Anybody can read anybody else's talk page, but that is as much to enable dialogue between any two persons. I still respect a kind of semi-private quality to personal talk pages. That someone should derive a legal position based on eavesdropping onto a personal talk page doesn't seem at all the best way to go about this sort of thing.
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