My knowledge of copyright law is limited, but surely if the BBC creates a photograph of an object which is in the public domain, they still own the copyright to the photograph?
On Jan 29, 2:21 pm, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > Undoubtably some of them will be public domain - those for which the > author died over 70 years ago - but it tends to be troublesome to > find out when the author did die. Others, especially any audio/video, > will still be copyrighted by the author. Assuming the authors are > still alive, we'd need to get their permission to release them under > a free license (we're a bit stuck with those where the author died > less than 70 years ago, though, unless anyone's any good at > necromancy...) > > Either way, there are a lot of cases where it will be non-trivial to > find out the copyright status, and it would be good if we could work > with the BBC to establish them. > > Mike > > On 29 Jan 2009, at 13:44, AndrewRT wrote: > > > > > Thanks for posting this Mike. I'm not clear if they're retaining > > copyright for the paintings - presumably if they are we couldn't just > > copy them into Commons? > > > On Jan 29, 9:29 am, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This might be worth investigating. The BBC might put the content > >> online in high-resolution form, so we could just grab a copy, but it > >> might be simpler / quicker / better publicity if we could get them to > >> 'donate' a copy to Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. > > >> Mike > > >> Begin forwarded message: > > >>> From: James Forrester <[email protected]> > >>> Date: 29 January 2009 00:03:12 GMT > >>> To: Communications Committee <[email protected]> > >>> Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Tangential press: "BBC to put nation's oil > >>> paintings online" > >>> Reply-To: Communications Committee <[email protected]> > > >>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/28/bbc-digitalmedia > > >>> We're not mentioned, but (a) good news, and (b) WMUK may want to > >>> play > >>> in (snag a complete dump for Commons?). > > >>> Random thought. Sorry not very well thought-out. :-) > > >>> Yours, > >>> -- > >>> James D. Forrester > >>> [email protected] | [email protected] > >>> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] > > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wmfcc-l mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfcc-l > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia UK mailing list > >> [email protected]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ > >> Wikimedia_UKhttp://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > [email protected] > >http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK > >http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UKhttp://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
