[Commons-l] o rly?

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 20:01:31 UTC 2008


On 26/12/2007, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> How's that? I make a photo, and free it. Say it's on Public Domain. How
> is X museum going to claim that photo cannot be used because i didn't
> aks them a permission they didn't require at that time?
>

Pretty much happened under UK law with the switch from 50 to 70 years.
Before the internet it didn't really present the same problem.

In any case Western civilization has spent the last few thousand years
removing stuff from Egypt not of which will be impacted. I see little
reason to be concerned.


-- 
geni



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