[okfn-discuss] Wikipedia Loves Art at the V&A in February]

Tue Dec 23 18:44:07 UTC 2008

On 23 Dec 2008, at 15:46, Rob Myers wrote:

> Jordan Hatcher's lists wrote:
>> Wouldn't CC-BY instead of CC-BY-SA be preferable,
>
> Interesting question. All the works to be photographed will be public
> domain, so I suppose ideally the photographs would be public domain as
> well.
>
> Asserting any copyright on the images at all might therefore look like
> rightswashing. But we haven't had a Bridgeman vs. Corel here, and all
> the museums I've checked here swear blind that they hold copyright on
> *their* photographic reproductions of their public domain works.

That's because they do have valid legal arguments for their position  
in the UK.

As to "rightswashing", CC-BY would be the most closely match PD as  
least restrictive.

> From a Wikipedia point of view I assume BY-SA is being used so that  
> the
> images can be used with Wikipedia when it goes BY-SA. Which is better
> than them being FDL. ;-)

Ah yes. But Wikipedia can use CC-BY images just as well as CC-BY-SA.

~Jordan

>
> - Rob.
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