[Foundation-l] Considerations for museums and archives to gain their cooperation

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 16:26:23 UTC 2009


Hoi,
You just posted what is generally believed to be the position of the WMF.
You did not answer the question. What picture is referred to? Where are the
discussions about this picture? Is this the picture believed to be the bard
as he really looked like ??

If this is indeed the picture that is talked about, I would love to know the
motivation for its deletion. I also seem to remember that it was a featured
picture on the English Wikipedia...
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/3/30 Ryan Kaldari <kaldari at gmail.com>

> If a museum or archive asserts copyright on a PD work or art, we
> ignore such claims. The WMF has stated they are willing to go to court
> to defend the public domain status of historic artwork (and
> photographic reproductions thereof).
>
> See
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#The_position_of_the_WMF
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
> > I'm still puzzled on what is the right thing to do with
> >
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/File:Shakespeare.jpg
> >
> > which was deleted twice and then reuploaded.
> >
> > When a museum claims to own copyright on a several hundred years piece,
> do
> > we concede?
> > I recall seeing many cases of bogus copyright claims being dismissed and
> > file kept on Commons. So what happened there?
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