Thanks Gautam. I stand vindicated! Clearly, we must start giving copyright credit to scanner operators. Or, a la Gutenberg, to scanner owners. And a new can of worms for every inkjet printer.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Gautam John <gau...@prathambooks.org>wrote: > On 29 June 2011 15:15, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We have many people who scan images from books, etc. In those cases we > give > > copyright as applicable, as public domain if they are old. Is the case > > different in case we take photos from art? > > Very much! A picture of the Mona Lisa is copyrightable. Even if the > painting of the Mona Lisa is out of copyright. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- Vickram Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
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