[Commons-l] Polish money not covered by copyright

[Artur Fijałkowski]

2007/8/3, Uber Halogen <uberhalogen w googlemail.com>:
> On 02/08/2007, Ejdzej Wikipedysta <ejdzej.wikipedysta w gmail.com> wrote:
> > Today "Rzeczpospolita" daily newspaper (one of most popular daily in
> > Poland) put an article with lawyer analysis prooving that Polish money
> > as "governmetal signs" are excluded from copyright.
> >
> > Article in Polish:
> > http://ejdzej.webpark.pl/wiki/Prawo-znaki_pieniezne.jpg
> >
> > Could we possibly use that opinion to restore images of Polish coins
> > and bills on Commons?
>
> IIRC one of the reasons money was removed is because even if the money
> is not copyrighted there all still 'unfree' restrictions imposed upon
> it. For example if you printed it out you could probably get
> prosecuted.

There are many other restrictions to nearly any other kind of free materials :(

AJF/WarX