[WikiEN-l] Application of the {{pd-art}} tag

Matt Brown morven at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 18:40:50 UTC 2006


On 4/10/06, Mak <makwik at gmail.com> wrote:
> This has come up in an article I'm working on- does this ruling apply to
> images from books or manuscripts? Are books three dimensional art works,
> even if what you're reproducing is a single page from them? My father, a
> librarian, seems to think the owning library continues to hold copyright for
> all such images. I'm not so sure.

In the United States, Bridgeman v. Corel applies.  Elsewhere, the
issue is vaguer.

-Matt



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