[WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

[David Gerard]

2008/12/26  <WJhonson at aol.com>:

> If I take a picture of the Declaration of Independence under glass at the
> National Archives, I gain a copyright to my image.  That does NOT give me a
> copyright to the actual underlying document that I've imaged.  If I take a
> picture of the Lincoln Memorial, I gain a copyright to my image.  Not to  the item
> imaged.


Quite possibly false - see Bridgeman v. Corel.


- d.