2009/7/17 Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]>: > (*) Would not make the Wikimedia Foundation or its community of user > appear to endorse or support the assertion of copyright on exacting > reproductions of clearly public domain works. Wikimedia (as far as I > can tell) and many of its users believes that it would be a > significant harm to the public and a blow to the fundamental nature of > copyright if that kind of loophole were allowed to exist.
I can imagine an NPG copyright tag that carefully states their claims without endorsing them: "This image is public domain in the US, as a plain reproduction of a public domain work. The National Portrait Gallery asserts copyright over this scan in the UK and licenses said scan under [copyleft licence]." That would pass muster for Commons just fine, though many would be annoyed and consider it was a sellout not to push the public domain question. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
