[Foundation-l] Considerations for museums and archives to gain their cooperation

[Ryan Kaldari]

The image was deleted prior to the PD-Art policy change on Commons.

Kaldari

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> You just posted what is generally believed to be the position of the WMF.
> You did not answer the question. What picture is referred to? Where are the
> discussions about this picture? Is this the picture believed to be the bard
> as he really looked like ??
>
> If this is indeed the picture that is talked about, I would love to know the
> motivation for its deletion. I also seem to remember that it was a featured
> picture on the English Wikipedia...
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> 2009/3/30 Ryan Kaldari <kaldari at gmail.com>
>
>> If a museum or archive asserts copyright on a PD work or art, we
>> ignore such claims. The WMF has stated they are willing to go to court
>> to defend the public domain status of historic artwork (and
>> photographic reproductions thereof).
>>
>> See
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#The_position_of_the_WMF
>>
>> Ryan Kaldari
>>
>> > I'm still puzzled on what is the right thing to do with
>> >
>> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/File:Shakespeare.jpg
>> >
>> > which was deleted twice and then reuploaded.
>> >
>> > When a museum claims to own copyright on a several hundred years piece,
>> do
>> > we concede?
>> > I recall seeing many cases of bogus copyright claims being dismissed and
>> > file kept on Commons. So what happened there?
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