Teofilo wrote:
David Monniaux said : "release lower resolution pictures under free license, keep high resolution pictures (those suitable for art books, posters and so on) proprietary."
I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full resolution pictures of Public Domain works. Because this is what the French copyright law is saying. There is no need to negociate anything. There is no need to change a single word from the current French copyright law. Simply have the French government's cultural institutions (museums, archives) recognize that they have been wrong until now, by adding copyright notices on Public Domain works (in France: non-poshumous works whose authors have been dead for more than 70 years).
Well you're probably not going to like this but I cannot understand the mentality that thinks that just because an image is in the Public Domain they have a right to demand someone's digital representation of that image. Its absolutely crazy and I await the demand for the divvying up of William Blake's copper plates, C19 lithographic plates, and Daguerreotypes.