its more legal/copyright descriptive, that necessitates the wording than just release them to the public which can still indicate they have restrictions
On 16 December 2013 11:46, Robinson Tryon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- GN. Vice President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com
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