An entertaining discussion - let's see if I understand the essence of the thread...
Facts: High resolution photos (of the Dead Sea Scrolls) were recently released under an Israeli copyright. (Obviously this does not constitute copyright of the scrolls themselves.) A great deal of technical and creative effort went into the preparation and conservation of the scrolls before photography began. Scholarship - the interpretation of the relationship of fragments to the entire document The photographers made many technical and creative decisions before obtaining the final images that were released. Differences of opinion: What exactly has been protected under copyright? Pro: the added value - preservation, conservation, scholarship, enhancement, etc. Con: nothing Unanswered questions: What rights restrictions were placed on the copyright? Was it "all rights reserved", attribution only, etc? Why was the decision made to release the work under copyright rather than a Creative Commons license? Is this an adequate summation? On 9/29/2011 6:11 AM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Message-ID: > <caprejlsd+uh4ovjh_smreyi7kpmavo4fra9qbyxjae6icwq...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Nikola Smolenski<smole...@eunet.rs> wrote: >> > On 29/09/11 04:12, Anthony wrote: >>> >> You need to reread what I said. ?I was not making a pro-copyright >>> >> argument. >> > >> > You need to rewrite what you wrote so that it reflects what you meant. >> > You were making a pro-copyright argument. > Let me be clear, then. I have no position on the copyrightability of > this image, neither in the US nor elsewhere, neither on whether or not > this image is copyrighted, nor on whether or not it should be > copyrightable. > > I also don't see why copyrightability matters. Surely even if the > images are copyrighted they can be used by WMF under the doctrine of > fair use. And even if they are not copyrighted, it's not clear to me > how the underlying images can even be obtained without committing a > felony of exceeding authorized access to a computer. > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
