[Clipart] Re:Old Books with illustration

[John Olsen]

>

This is an attempt at asset management that you see with museums and  
libraries.  Like  the Mona Lisa, never covered under copyright.  So  
public domain.  But the Louvre owns it and can prevent anyone taking  
a professional picture of it.  I recall that the Supreme Court ruled  
that reproductions, scans and archival photos are not covered under  
copyright.  They ruled that they are not unique creative expressions  
and just copies.  This was a big blow to museums as they no longer  
had an exclusive claim on the art behind their walls.  Formerly they  
would say, "Sure the Mona Lis is PD, but the photo you used is  
copyright and it had to come from us because we control who takes  
photos here."  But in the US at least that has been voided by SCOTUS.

John Olsen


> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:21:30 -0400
> From: "Russell Ossendryver" <worldlabel at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] Old Books with illustrations
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources
>
> Seems like a whole lot of source one can start proceeding with, some
> really good ones also :)
>
> On 4/28/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:36 -0400, Russell Ossendryver wrote:
>>>> Now whether someone downloading an image, making a sketch of it  
>>>> using
>>>> their favorite SVG editor, and then uploading it to  
>>>> OpenClipArt.org is
>>>> covered under their personal use clause, is up for debate.
>>>
>>> Yes that is a debate :)  I would think that one can. I little futher
>>> investigating, they are charging a commercial fee for High  
>>> Resolution
>>> image  they will deliver.
>>>
>>> The public domian images scanned are available from many other  
>>> sources
>>> who have also scanned the same image. For example:
>>>
>>> http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm? 
>>> keyword=Brookshaw%2C+George%2C&submit.x=20&submit.y=13
>>>
>>> http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&rls=GGLJ% 
>>> 2CGGLJ%3A2006-47%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=+George+Brookshaw&btnG=Search+Images

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