David Gerard wrote:
On 04/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@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