[Foundation-l] Speedy deletion of UK Darwin scans

[Klaus Graf]

There is a remarkable victory for the Copyfraud lobby at Commons:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_from_Darwin_Online

The discussion was opened at February 2 and closed with the decision
to delete on February 5. I think there is absolutely no reason for the
Wikimedia Foundation not to accept Bridgeman v. Corel (an US decision
which has diligently discussed UK law with the same result that mere
reproductions are not copyrightable) for all projects. Scans from
printed Public Domain books cannot be protected. Lord Oliver said "But
copying, per se, however much skill and labour may be devoted to the
process cannot make an original work".

Typographical protection in the UK expires after 25 years. But much
older reproductions can be protected for 70 years pma when some
Indians do some Photoshop work on scans?

On Copyfraud see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

Klaus Graf