[Wikipedia-l] Obnoxious art galleries...

[Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales]

The simple solution is that we need to find as many nicely printed art
books from the PD era, and do some mass scanning and uploading,
documenting carefully the sources.

--Jimbo

Robert Graham Merkel wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:41:09AM +0000, wikipedia-l-request at Wikimedia.org wrote:
> > Message: 8
> > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 21:38:28 -0700
> > From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
> > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] [bhorrocks at npg.org.uk: National Portrait
> > 	Gallery	images on Wikipedia website]
> > To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org, wikien-l at wikimedia.org
> > Message-ID: <20040804043828.GM23467 at wikia.com>
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> > It would please me greatly to be able to respond that their claims are
> > preposterous.  Shall we research this carefully?
> > 
> 
> I don't know about UK law, but the National Gallery of Victoria 
> in Australia (with the shared legal tradition I believe the copyright
> laws are similar) seems to believe that they own the rights to any 
> photographs of the artworks they own, even if the artworks themselves 
> are in the public domain.  You will note the copyright notice on 
> this Australian website:
> 
> http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/Artists_mccubbin.htm
> 
> This is despite the fact that McCubbin died in 1917.
> 
> I have been meaning to get around to making further enquiries into this
> in the Australian context, but haven't got around to it.  Given this
> enquiry, it just got moved up my priority list.
> 
> -- 
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