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

[Jimmy Wales]

Fastfission wrote:
> Since Bridgeman v. Corel currently IS the law (whether the archivists
> like it or not) and has BEEN the law for the past six years, I think
> we shouldn't be too worried about using it. In any event, if something
> horrible happened which changed the legal situation we can always go
> back over the images tagged as such and delete them.

While I am of course sympathetic, it bears repeating that Bridgeman v.
Corel is *not* binding authority, as it was merely a district court case.





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