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Cary Bass wrote:
| Daniel Kinzler wrote:
|
| |>
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/medien/wsj_chefredaktor_1.739127.html
| Robert
| |> Thomsons image.
| |
| | I see an low-res image used in editorial context, showing a person of
| interest,
| | not something copyrighted on its own; this may be fair use (a pokemon
| shirt
| | would be, under the same circumstances). The photo copytion sais "pd"
| without
| | any explanation what is meant by that. Might even be the photographers
| initials,
| | who knows. I can't see why this Image would be legally PD anyway.
|
| I would see this as the photograph being credited to a staff member with
| initials "pd" rather than Public Domain (what is the term for Public
| Domain in German anyway?). I would expect Public Domain to be
| explicitly written, not "pd".
|
After speaking with a Swiss German user--he seems to be under the
impression that "pd" stands for "Pressdokumentation"; literally
"Press
documentation" or "Press kit" as we commonly refer to it in the US.
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