On 07/12/06, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hmm... "The Crown copyright protected material (other than the Royal Arms and departmental or agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium provided it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context." That sounds about right... "The exception to this rule is for material downloaded from our DocumentsOnline service (see below)." Fair enough... "Where any of the Crown copyright items on this site are being republished or copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged." Again, fair enough, and standard procedure for us anyway. "Images on this site may not be reproduced without payment of a fee to the image library." That doesn't sound quite right to me; in fact, it contradicts the earlier Crown Copyright statement.

It might be worth firing off an email or making other enquiries to check, unless someone else here knows what's going on with these.

On 07/12/06, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)gmail.com> wrote: Bear in mind that we're not talking a copy of the text here (it's clearly too small to read), and we're not talking a copy of "an artwork", a creative artistic piece - this is a picture of a physical artifact, plain and simple, and I don't see any reason that the photograph itself shouldn't retain copyright. Generally speaking, in the UK, you generally get copyright over a photograph if there are creative or skilled elements in the making of it - most things above an automatic photobooth, in fact. It's entirely debatable how far that applies to "archive" images which are sort-of intended as slavish copies and do require a lot of skilled work to create, but it's a digression from the point here. This is an image that, to my mind, can be copyrighted same as any other. We're just being mislead by the fact it's of a textual artifact. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l