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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The question is if they get it. As it is published for the first time they
could claim copyright.
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/9/28 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>

> 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
>
>
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