2008/12/26 WJhonson@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.
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