-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 5:31 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...
David Gerard wrote: > 2009/9/28 <[email protected]>: > >> From the earlier poster Teofilo: >> I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full >> resolution pictures of Public Domain works. >> That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible. > > > That sets it out as a goal, not a demand. > "There is no need to negociate anything. There is no need to change a single word from the current French copyright law. Simply have the French government's cultural institutions (museums, archives) recognize that they have been wrong until now" just doesn't read like a goal, its a demand. > But getting back to the case in question - we're talking about the > sort of museum that's actually a government sub-department. Thus, > public domain images that the taxpayer has *already paid for*. I see > nothing whatsoever unreasonable about the idea of asking-to-demanding > those. They're owned by the public, not by the museum bureaucrats. > <<Whilst those digitalizations they may be owned by the French public, they certainly aren't owned by the German public, British, Italian, Spanish, or American public either.>> "The public" doesn't have national boundaries. "The public" means all of the public, here there and elsewhere. W.J. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
