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

[Ray Saintonge]

Matt Brown wrote:

>E.g. I have a copy of the 1922 Locomotive Cyclopedia of American
>Practice.  Being published and printed in 1922, it is now out of
>copyright in the US - not only the original work being out of
>copyright, but any possible new copyright created by making the copy,
>since the copy I own is itself old enough to be independently out of
>copyright.
>
>I can legally scan any image in the book and place it on Wikipedia.  I
>do not need to assume the validity of Bridgeman v. Corel in order to
>do so.
>
>If Bridgeman v. Corel is overturned, then I can still copy MY copy of
>the book, but I cannot take someone else's scans from their website
>and use those.
>
If the original image was in the public domain there is nothing wrong 
about your using someone else's scan of the image.  That other person's 
scan of a public domain work is not copyrightable.

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