[WikiEN-l] "Permission required" on copyright expired images...

[Chris Down]

> Although I suspect what's also happening is the image that we see
> there is low quality, and you'd need permission to get a higher
> quality, printable version. And they'd never give permission to cc-sa
> it.

Copyright doesn't work like that. An image is not copyrighted by itself, a
"work" is, and most people would not consider an image that is simply
resized to be an entirely different work to the original. Therefore,
licensing a resized version differently to a higher quality original (or
whatever) is simply not possible

Also:

"The requirement for permission to publish is based on ownership, not
> copyright"


Does ownership actually allow you to supersede copyright like this? Surely
not.

- Chris