On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada <[email protected]> wrote: > Quote from full announcement > http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html > >> We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to >> use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, >> 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously >> gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the >> Public Domain.
The language used here confuses me. Given the age of the source material and the lack of originality in a simple page-scan, wouldn't the resulting images already be PD? Perhaps "release them back into the Public Domain," would be better described as "release them to the public" ? --R _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
