Sage Ross writes:
>
> What case(s) settled this issue? I haven't been able to find anything
> credible one way or the other, but a number of organizations without
> an obvious financial interest in the issue seem to assume that
> restorations do create new copyrights.
The issue of whether origi
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Sage Ross wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
>>
>> It is settled case law in the US that restorations are not
>> copyrightable as they lack sufficient originality. The intent is to
>> create a slavish copy of the original work. Even if
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
>
> It is settled case law in the US that restorations are not
> copyrightable as they lack sufficient originality. The intent is to
> create a slavish copy of the original work. Even if it takes a great
> deal of skill and judgment to do that
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> Дана Wednesday 16 September 2009 00:26:18 Cary Bass написа:
>> These works are Public Domain. Anyone can use them without credit. Since
>> your restoration work did not add any additional copyright, there is no
>> requirement even to cred
Дана Wednesday 16 September 2009 00:26:18 Cary Bass написа:
> These works are Public Domain. Anyone can use them without credit. Since
> your restoration work did not add any additional copyright, there is no
> requirement even to credit Wikimedia Commons.
Since restoring an image could include so
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Cary Bass wrote:
> These works are Public Domain. Anyone can use them without credit. Since
> your restoration work did not add any additional copyright, there is no
> requirement even to credit Wikimedia Commons.
>
> While the project can request that reusers cre
Durova wrote:
> An eBay vendor is exploiting a volunteer restoration of the Holocaust.
>
> Another volunteer at Commons first spotted it.
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Durova#Photo_on_ebay
>
> Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
> eBay:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/1943-WWII-WARSAW-GHETTO-UPRISING-Ju
An eBay vendor is exploiting a volunteer restoration of the Holocaust.
Another volunteer at Commons first spotted it.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Durova#Photo_on_ebay
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1943-WWII-WARSAW-GHETTO-UPRISING-Jurgen-Stroop-Photo_W0QQitemZ20
