[Wikimediauk-l] Re: "Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees—at last"

2023-12-29 Thread Charles Matthews
The copyright point came up at a recent training event I attended. It is good that there is now solid UK case law to support our way. For the technical obstructions sometimes put in place of downloading, I suppose it would take statute law to shift those. Charles > On 29/12/2023 21:19 GMT Lu

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: "Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees—at last"

2023-12-29 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Excellent news. Thanks for sharing Andy. Best Lucy On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 19:57, Andy Mabbett wrote: > A recent Court of Appeal (England and Wales) case has clarified that > there is no new copyright in photographs reproducing 2D artworks that > are themselves in the public domain - and that (a

[Wikimediauk-l] Re: "Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees—at last"

2023-12-29 Thread Liam Wyatt
O *frabjous* day! Callooh! Callay! On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 19:57, Andy Mabbett wrote: > A recent Court of Appeal (England and Wales) case has clarified that > there is no new copyright in photographs reproducing 2D artworks that > are themselves in the public domain - and that (as many of us have

[Wikimediauk-l] "Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees—at last"

2023-12-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
A recent Court of Appeal (England and Wales) case has clarified that there is no new copyright in photographs reproducing 2D artworks that are themselves in the public domain - and that (as many of us have argued) this has been the case since at least 2009. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/202