Actually, on Commons I had photographs deleted on the ground that the depicted building is a replica of an old building which went out of copyright, but the replica is copyrighted (despite my objection). When I myself nominated a photograph on the same grounds, it was kept. I do not particularly care which one is correct, but it would be great to have consistent practice.
Cheers Yaroslav On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31/07/17 00:06, Jean-Philippe Béland wrote: > > The restoration work is indeed an extensive work, but is it a "creation > of > > the mind", which is necessary for copyright? > > > > JP > > > The Cutty Sark was almost destroyed by fire, and was rebuilt. I would > say it a visitor attraction (of very high quality) that it is a > facsimile of the craft that sailed the oceans. I have visited both > before and after the fire (and rebuilding). Some timbers would also have > replaced before the fire and also planned replacement during the 2007 > conservation closure period when the fire took place. > > Sir Arthur Evans also rebuilt an artifact, Knossos, and he used > concrete, which was not around in the era 1380–1100 BCE. > > Has something has been "created" by a mind? I would say yes, to both. In > the case of the Cutty Sark, the ship was placed in a new "dry dock" so > that visitors can view the hull (for example). > > Gordo > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
