[OpenGLAM] Wellcome

Tue Jan 21 12:41:43 UTC 2014

2014/1/21 Joris Pekel <jpekel at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> For those of you not on Twitter, yesterday the Wellcome Library announced
> yesterday that they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of
> manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements
> available using a CC-BY license.

Thanks for the link. I am still a bit unsure how a CC-license can
apply to works that are already in the public domain. In practice,
people might feel obliged to attribute the source by their own
editorial standards.

Mathias