2009/3/22 Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com>:

> The original painting is certainly NOT public domain - but what about the
> copyright status of a photograph that you or I might take of that painting?
> That is the question.

You can't turn a copyrighted work into a free one by... *making a copy of it*.

Once you put it like that, it seems quite simple :-) Unfortunately,
explaining that has historically been an uphill struggle!

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

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