On 2 March 2013 19:28, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 March 2013 12:04, Fae <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2. Text on a memorial may be under its own copyright even though it is >> on permanent public display, so the text itself must be demonstrably >> out of copyright. This is a separate issue from the general FOP >> provisions. If the text is incidental to the photograph, i.e. not a >> close up and the text is effectively de minimus, then FOP is likely to >> be valid. > > One other thing to remember: most of this text is fairly uncreative - > in many cases, standard phrases or dates, and lists of names. We could > make a reasonably good case that they are unlikely to be copyrightable > texts regardless of age.
That's true, and I have uploaded plenty of my own photos of war memorials with close up details of names, rank and so forth. However I have run into problems with memorial statements that contain poetry, simple drawings and original dedications and some of these have been deleted despite me being reasonably cautious. I still think this is solvable with some simple guidelines/principles for those taking part in an event to take care to avoid any later problems with uploads. Cheers, Fae _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
