[Foundation-l] Bridgeman v. Corel worldwide for Wikimedia Commons - yes or no?

[Marco Chiesa]

David Gerard ha scritto:
> FWIW, the National Portrait Gallery hasn't bugged Wikimedia about
> images of pictures they own (which they claim copyright on, and which
> we have marked "public domain due to age") since Jimbo told them to
> sue and be damned, a few years ago. It can be *very useful* to be the
> 800-pound gorilla of free content.
>
>   
Interesting. In Italy we managed to go on the press when the Museums of 
Florence forced us to take down all the images of works owned by them. 
As a result a law introducing some kind of fair use has been passed by 
the Parliament, and now it may be possible to publish one's own 
photographs of PD work of arts owned by State museums with a 
noncommercial licence (if they're owned by private museums they're 
completely PD). Of course we are in the situation where we cannot put on 
the Italian Wikipedia images that are on commons; this is very far from 
Bridgeman vs Corel...

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