The copyright point came up at a recent training event I attended. It is good that there
is now solid UK case law to support our way.
For the technical obstructions sometimes put in place of downloading, I suppose it would
take statute law to shift those.
Charles
On 29/12/2023 21:19 GMT Lucy Crompton-Reid
<lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Excellent news. Thanks for sharing Andy.
Best
Lucy
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 19:57, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk
mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
A recent Court of Appeal (England and Wales) case
has clarified that
there is no new copyright in photographs reproducing 2D artworks that
are themselves in the public domain - and that (as many of us have
argued) this has been the case since at least 2009.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/29/court-of-appeal-ruling-will-prev…
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