Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] FOP in Europe: does this include WWII monuments with art? - Wikimedia-l

2 Mar 2013

On 2 March 2013 19:28, Andrew Gray &lt;andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk&gt; wrote:
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  On 2 March 2013 12:04, Fae
&lt;faewik+commons(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

  2. Text on a memorial may be under its own
copyright even though it is
 on permanent public display, so the text itself must be demonstrably
 out of copyright. This is a separate issue from the general FOP
 provisions. If the text is incidental to the photograph, i.e. not a
 close up and the text is effectively de minimus, then FOP is likely to
 be valid. 
 One other thing to remember: most of this text is fairly uncreative -
 in many cases, standard phrases or dates, and lists of names. We could
 make a reasonably good case that they are unlikely to be copyrightable
 texts regardless of age. 
That's true, and I have uploaded plenty of my own photos of war
memorials with close up details of names, rank and so forth. However I
have run into problems with memorial statements that contain poetry,
simple drawings and original dedications and some of these have been
deleted despite me being reasonably cautious. I still think this is
solvable with some simple guidelines/principles for those taking part
in an event to take care to avoid any later problems with uploads.

Cheers,
Fae