My knowledge of copyright law is limited, but surely if the BBC creates a photograph of an object which is in the public domain, they still own the copyright to the photograph?
On Jan 29, 2:21 pm, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Undoubtably some of them will be public domain - those for which the author died over 70 years ago - but it tends to be troublesome to find out when the author did die. Others, especially any audio/video, will still be copyrighted by the author. Assuming the authors are still alive, we'd need to get their permission to release them under a free license (we're a bit stuck with those where the author died less than 70 years ago, though, unless anyone's any good at necromancy...)
Either way, there are a lot of cases where it will be non-trivial to find out the copyright status, and it would be good if we could work with the BBC to establish them.
Mike
On 29 Jan 2009, at 13:44, AndrewRT wrote:
Thanks for posting this Mike. I'm not clear if they're retaining copyright for the paintings - presumably if they are we couldn't just copy them into Commons?
On Jan 29, 9:29 am, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
This might be worth investigating. The BBC might put the content online in high-resolution form, so we could just grab a copy, but it might be simpler / quicker / better publicity if we could get them to 'donate' a copy to Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons.
Mike
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From: James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com Date: 29 January 2009 00:03:12 GMT To: Communications Committee wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Tangential press: "BBC to put nation's oil paintings online" Reply-To: Communications Committee wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/28/bbc-digitalmedia
We're not mentioned, but (a) good news, and (b) WMUK may want to play in (snag a complete dump for Commons?).
Random thought. Sorry not very well thought-out. :-)
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