David Gerard ha scritto:
FWIW, the National Portrait Gallery hasn't bugged
Wikimedia about
images of pictures they own (which they claim copyright on, and which
we have marked "public domain due to age") since Jimbo told them to
sue and be damned, a few years ago. It can be *very useful* to be the
800-pound gorilla of free content.
Interesting. In Italy we managed to go on the press when the Museums of
Florence forced us to take down all the images of works owned by them.
As a result a law introducing some kind of fair use has been passed by
the Parliament, and now it may be possible to publish one's own
photographs of PD work of arts owned by State museums with a
noncommercial licence (if they're owned by private museums they're
completely PD). Of course we are in the situation where we cannot put on
the Italian Wikipedia images that are on commons; this is very far from
Bridgeman vs Corel...
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