wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > > The image is in the public domain. That's the point. > Public means all public, not limited to the whims of what the boundary of a > certain > country might be today. >
Suppose someone goes into the Louvre not with a camera but with a laser scanner. they digitize the entire statue, convert the point cloud into surfaces, and then from the surfaces into CNC program files. Finally they slap a block of marble on a milling machine and mill out an exact copy of the original. Whilst they don't get to obtain any copyright on the copy YOU don't get to claim that the CNC files are yours of right. Same with the digitization of a painting. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
