Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
I've got one more question on our
Lindisfarne Gospels image. Since it
would almost certainly be "protected"
under British law I wonder if the
[[Berne Convention]] would require the
United States to uphold this protection.
Not at all. Even assuming that the museum's dubious claims were upheld
by British courts, the operating principle in the US would be not to
give greater protection than would be available in a comparable
situation in the US, i.e. of source material owned by a US museum. The
US courts have already gone further in determining the
non-copyrightability of such materials.
Ec