There is a remarkable victory for the Copyfraud lobby at Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_from_Darw...
The discussion was opened at February 2 and closed with the decision to delete on February 5. I think there is absolutely no reason for the Wikimedia Foundation not to accept Bridgeman v. Corel (an US decision which has diligently discussed UK law with the same result that mere reproductions are not copyrightable) for all projects. Scans from printed Public Domain books cannot be protected. Lord Oliver said "But copying, per se, however much skill and labour may be devoted to the process cannot make an original work".
Typographical protection in the UK expires after 25 years. But much older reproductions can be protected for 70 years pma when some Indians do some Photoshop work on scans?
On Copyfraud see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud
Klaus Graf
On 2/5/08, Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com wrote:
There is a remarkable victory for the Copyfraud lobby at Commons:
To be clear: The Wikimedia Foundation was not involved in this decision, and we'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.
We should probably start by reimporting them in enWP.
On Feb 5, 2008 8:21 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/5/08, Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com wrote:
There is a remarkable victory for the Copyfraud lobby at Commons:
To be clear: The Wikimedia Foundation was not involved in this decision, and we'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.
-- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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On 06/02/2008, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
We should probably start by reimporting them in enWP.
Hm, rather, if Commons makes a mistake, I think it is more important to correct that mistake on Commons rather than mop it up elsewhere.
I'm not sure foundation-l needs to discuss it, but I suggest people put input here: < http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Deletion_requests/Images_from...
cheers, Brianna
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