The copyright point came up at a recent training event I attended. It is good that there is now solid UK case law to support our way.
For the technical obstructions sometimes put in place of downloading, I suppose it would take statute law to shift those.
Charles
On 29/12/2023 21:19 GMT Lucy Crompton-Reid lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Excellent news. Thanks for sharing Andy.
Best Lucy
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 19:57, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
A recent Court of Appeal (England and Wales) case has clarified that there is no new copyright in photographs reproducing 2D artworks that are themselves in the public domain - and that (as many of us have argued) this has been the case since at least 2009.
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