Thank you Klaus, I didn't know about that. But what about the "NPG affair"? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee/NPG_legal_threat
I know that scans are mechanical reproduction of texts, but I don't know all legislations could agree on this. I'm fairly sure that the Italian law guarantees 20 years of copyright to the creator of an "image" of any thing. It probably guarantees the copyright of even the trascription of a text (I interrogated a lawyer few years ago, he just confirmed the issue is unclear and everyone is interpretating the law as preferred... )
Aubrey
2010/10/26 Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#The_pos...
Klaus Graf
2010/10/26 Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com:
Dear Wikisource community, I want to a ask a question that surely have been raised before. Unfortunately, I haven't find that in the archive of wikisource-l, so I will ask you.
On what legal basis are we uploading Google Books (and Internet Archive,
and
Gallica) scans on Commons, putting the {{PD-Scan}} on those?
I remember endless discussions in it.source about these issues, with contrasting opinions (both with reasons). For example, if we are able to upload from Gallica to Commons and then Wikisource, why the WM-Fr community did have to make an agreement with the BnF? Am I understanding this correctly? Was the material *donated*? I know the texts are PD, but also the images?
I know this is a probably well known topic, I've just never read a definitive clarification on this issue. Thank you
Aubrey
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