[Clipart] PD license

[chovynz]

No Idea. Not my area, nor have much interest in finding out. :)
I think, Mona Lisa is attributed to Da Vinci, but there is no copyright on
it today. He's been dead for over 300 years now, so...   See
here<http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/news/davincicode_pictures_monalisa.html>for
more (trivial) details

Common sense would say the Egyptian hieroglyphs cannot be copyrighted since
they were their alphabet. It would be like saying "I'm sorry you cannot use
the letter Aa, because it's copyrighted to me. And I say no." No idea about
actual artworks. Probably no copyright since the authors are long since
dead.

Shakespeare.. well..I would say the same. But this
website<http://www.william-shakespeare.info/copyright.htm>says
differently. Are they an authority on copyright for Shakespeare? I
dont
know. ... This website<http://www.shakespeare-online.com/siteinfo/copyright.html>claims
THEY have copyright...So do a few others.

I *think* shakespears works are in public domain. But...IANAL. :)

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Oleg Koptev <koptev.oleg at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Some areas do not recognise PD works, instead saying "all artwork is
> copyrighted."
> What about ancient egyptian's artworks? Mona Lisa? Shakespeare? Hows they
> protect copyright issues there?
>

Interesting reading on copyright.
http://www.ur.umich.edu/9798/Mar11_98/copy.htm (Ten years old now)



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Cheers
Chovynz
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