<<In a message dated 1/13/2009 10:28:59 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
I once e-mailed them about this and the person who e-mailed me back said that they were claiming the copyright on the _scans_, not the images themselves.>> That is sort of the argument I was making a while ago, and I was greatly interested in the recent copyright case where some museum (I can't remember the details) was claiming copyright over high quality images they produced of old (flat) artworks (i.e. paintings or drawings). The case went against them I believe and the reasoning was repeated here on this list just recently. It would seem pretty clear that the same reasoning could be used against say Google books scans of old documents/books/maps. That these scans themselves enjoy no special ability for a new copyright claim vis a vis the expiration of old copyrights (pre 1922). Will Johnson **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://news.aol.com?ncid=emlcntusnews00000002) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
