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Daniel Kinzler wrote:
|> http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/medien/wsj_chefredaktor_1.739127.html Robert |> Thomsons image. | | I see an low-res image used in editorial context, showing a person of interest, | not something copyrighted on its own; this may be fair use (a pokemon shirt | would be, under the same circumstances). The photo copytion sais "pd" without | any explanation what is meant by that. Might even be the photographers initials, | who knows. I can't see why this Image would be legally PD anyway.
I would see this as the photograph being credited to a staff member with initials "pd" rather than Public Domain (what is the term for Public Domain in German anyway?). I would expect Public Domain to be explicitly written, not "pd".
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