tarquin-
Seen on the pump:
Please, just ignore those bogus copyright claims.
The painting is in
the public domain and the digitization process is not
creative.?Eloquence <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eloquence>
Does that mean that I can take a book out of the
library on, say,
Constable, and scan the reproductions of his paintings for wikipedia?
Photographs of objects like paintings have no substantial expressive
content of their own with very few exceptions of obvious lighting and
retouching jobs (and even then it's controversial), which is required by
US copyright law. Do not let cultural pirates who try to steal from the
public domain fool you into thinking otherwise. If these people had their
way, we would have no art to write about, because it would all be locked
in museums, only accessible after signing non disclosure agreements, and
officially be distributed by the new "copyright holders", under DRM
protection, of course.
Regards,
Erik