[Wikipedia-l] comment on wikipedia

[Yann Forget]

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Hi,

Le Sunday 01 February 2004 07:06, Alex R. a écrit :
>
> Police ledgers are not copyrightable, that is public information.
> Just like the news is not really copyrightable. That is why you can
> use pictures of famous people and famous events. Unless their is
> something particularly creative about the photo there is just a mechanical
> reproduction. Sort of like the copyright of an old painting.

This is something new to me.
Do you mean that, say, pictures of the 9/11 attacks are not copyrightable?
As well as pictures of the presidents of the US?
We have a problem with the pictures of the presidents of France which are 
"© Présidence de la République. Documentation française".
cf. http://www.elysee.fr/instit/fonct3.php
Can we put these freely into Wikipedia?

Thanks,
Yann

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