On 04/12/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The situation that crops up more often for me is
taking photos of
information plaques at tourist sites - I use the information on them
later on to write the article, and would like to make the image
available for someone who wants to verify what I've done, or possibly
to expand on it. I don't think copyright is an issue. Nor is anyone
going to travel hundreds or thousands of kilometres to do it, for what
is a pretty trivial article.
Now, I *have* the image. Where do I put it?
On Commons! Make sure it's a nice image.
Hmmm! I've never really thought about the copyrightability of text on
historical or tourist plaques, or epitaphs on tombstones. ;-)
Ec