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

[David Gerard]

2009/9/30  <wiki-lists at phizz.demon.co.uk>:
> David Gerard wrote:

>> 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.

> Whilst those digitalizations they may be owned by the French public,
> they certainly aren't owned by the German public, British, Italian,
> Spanish, or American public either.


And limiting them is to the benefit of ... ?


- d.