Thanks Gautam. I stand vindicated!
Clearly, we must start giving copyright credit to scanner operators. Or, a
la Gutenberg, to scanner owners. And a new can of worms for every inkjet
printer.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org>wrote;wrote:
On 29 June 2011 15:15, Ashwin Baindur
<ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We have many people who scan images from books,
etc. In those cases we
give
copyright as applicable, as public domain if they
are old. Is the case
different in case we take photos from art?
Very much! A picture of the Mona Lisa is copyrightable. Even if the
painting of the Mona Lisa is out of copyright.
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