I do indeed recall the previous discussions, and I'm as opposed as anyone to
the practice of public custodians of our heritage attempting to claim a fresh
copyright for their reproductions of public domain art.
Although Bridgeman v Corel is highly influential for the USA, we must be aware
that
Public domain for 2D works applies for old 2D artefacts, like
manuscripts or flat decorated objects. The examples I've seen include
objects like 15th C. drawings, which the claim of "copyright of the
Trustees" may be safely ignored as there is no new creativity in the
likely automated scans being
I'm pretty sure CC BY-NC-SA is not compatible with the licences on Commons.
They could be uploaded and used on en-wiki with a fair use rationale, the same
as any other non-free image.
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Rexx
> On 29 April 2020 at 13:30 John Byrne wrote:
>
> So can we put them on Commons? Or use them
So can we put them on Commons? Or use them from a Wikipedia file?
John
On 29 April 2020 at 13:00
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