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Subject:    Re: [Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...
From:       Allison Muri <allison.muri () usask ! ca>
Date:       2006-10-23 22:41:39
Message-ID: A6898A1A-807C-49A4-9C7B-F62B571E96B1 () usask ! ca
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What I would very much like to see is the purchase and release of  
images that are themselves in the public domain, but are still locked  
in a stranglehold by museums and libraries that claim they have  
copyright on the photographs of those images. This is particularly  
true in the UK where museums and libraries typically charge large  
fees for reproductions, then large fees for using the images;  
sometimes the claim for copyright of the photographs of materials in  
the public domain is also made in the USA--where Bridgeman vs Corel  
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_vs_Corel) has set a precedent  
but hasn't been endorsed by the Supreme Court; and sometimes this  
claim for copyright is made in Canada as well. I don't know a lot  
about other countries, but probably there are similar issues all over  
the world: large organizations that are supposed to be stewards of  
cultural history in fact are hoarders of it. The result is that a  
huge portion of our history is too expensive for many people to see  
and and admire and study, and oftentimes too expensive or legally too  
problematic for scholars to include in their published studies.

APM


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