On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru>wrote:
> I am not sure I understand the issue. > > If we are talking about PD material, whether it is hosted on Flickr, on > the website of the museum or elsewhere, we can still use it and upload on > Commons (possibly by a bot). Example: Finnish National Gallery > http://www.ateneum.fi/ has on its site virtually all canvasses and many of > the graphic works it possesses, which gives a good overview of Finnish > painting in general. I do not see why those images which are PD can not be > uploaded on Commons. Same would apply if they hosted on Flickr. > > If material is not PD, it can not be uploaded. > > What is wrong with this reasoning? > > Cheers > Yaroslav I'm still puzzled on what is the right thing to do with http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/File:Shakespeare.jpg which was deleted twice and then reuploaded. When a museum claims to own copyright on a several hundred years piece, do we concede? I recall seeing many cases of bogus copyright claims being dismissed and file kept on Commons. So what happened there? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
