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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with
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David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/9/28 <wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk>:
>
>> From the earlier poster Teofilo:
>> I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
>> resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
>> That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.
>
>
> That sets it out as a goal, not a demand.
>
"There is no need to negociate anything. There is no need
to change a single word from the current French copyright
law. Simply have the French government's cultural institutions
(museums, archives) recognize that they have been wrong until now"
just doesn't read like a goal, its a demand.
> But getting back to the case in question - we're talking about the
> sort of museum that's actually a government sub-department. Thus,
> public domain images that the taxpayer has *already paid for*. I see
> nothing whatsoever unreasonable about the idea of asking-to-demanding
> those. They're owned by the public, not by the museum bureaucrats.
>
<<Whilst those digitalizations they may be owned by the French public,
they certainly aren't owned by the German public, British, Italian,
Spanish, or American public either.>>
"The public" doesn't have national boundaries.
"The public" means all of the public, here there and elsewhere.
W.J.
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