[Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/9/28  <wiki-lists at phizz.demon.co.uk>:
>
>   
>>  From the earlier poster Teofilo:
>>    I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
>>    resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
>> That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.
>>     
>
>
> That sets it out as a goal, not a demand.
>
> But getting back to the case in question - we're talking about the
> sort of museum that's actually a government sub-department. Thus,
> public domain images that the taxpayer has *already paid for*. I see
> nothing whatsoever unreasonable about the idea of asking-to-demanding
> those. They're owned by the public, not by the museum bureaucrats.
>
>   

In defense of museums, some of them do get it. The images of
golden artifacts from the Staffordshire Hoard were immediately
released under a CC license:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/with/3944490322/


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen