[Commons-l] Polish money not covered by copyright

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On 8/3/07, Uber Halogen <uberhalogen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 02/08/2007, Ejdzej Wikipedysta <ejdzej.wikipedysta at 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.
>

We (generally) do not look into restrictions other than copyright
restrictions. I think we can undelete the images. Probably a reference
on COM:L and the relevant license tag would be useful.

Bryan