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Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
Look at this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LindisfarneFol27rIncipitMatt.jpg
You'll see that there's a link to the British Library page from which the image was snatched. Following that link you'll see that the British Library claims copyright on the image. As far as I know this may well hold up under British law (evil as that would be).
The photograph is of a book over 1000 years old, so the art itself is in the public domain. The photograph on the library website is of the book, framed by a ruler and colour scale. And then, a nice little " Copyright © The British Library" down the bottom. Now AFAICT (and IANAL), there is nothing creative about that photograph. I find their claim of copyright spurious, to say the least.
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