[Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

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David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/9/28  <wiki-lists at phizz.demon.co.uk>:
> 
>>  From the earlier poster Teofilo:
>>    I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
>>    resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
>> That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.
> 
> 
> That sets it out as a goal, not a demand.
> 

    "There is no need to negociate anything. There is no need
     to change a single word from the current French copyright
     law. Simply have the French government's cultural institutions
     (museums, archives) recognize that they have been wrong until now"


just doesn't read like a goal, its a demand.


> But getting back to the case in question - we're talking about the
> sort of museum that's actually a government sub-department. Thus,
> public domain images that the taxpayer has *already paid for*. I see
> nothing whatsoever unreasonable about the idea of asking-to-demanding
> those. They're owned by the public, not by the museum bureaucrats.
> 


<<Whilst those digitalizations they may be owned by the French public,
they certainly aren't owned by the German public, British, Italian,
Spanish, or American public either.>>


"The public" doesn't have national boundaries.
"The public" means all of the public, here there and elsewhere.

W.J.