[Foundation-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

[Nikola Smolenski]

Дана Wednesday 16 September 2009 00:26:18 Cary Bass написа:
> These works are Public Domain. Anyone can use them without credit. Since
> your restoration work did not add any additional copyright, there is no
> requirement even to credit Wikimedia Commons.

Since restoring an image could include some amount of creativity, a 
restoration could be copyrightable. Certainly, there are people claiming 
copyright on digital restorations.

But since Durova didn't claim copyright on her restorations, didn't even 
mention herself anywhere on the image description page, and did mark the 
images as being in public domain, I don't see how could any reuser be held 
responsible for not mentioning her as the restorer.

(I have only looked at the image at 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_06b.jpg )