[WikiEN-l] Used-with-permission images, a modest proposal

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Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:

>For the record I think the idea that the British Library
>can copyright this image to be evil. There are lots of
>pictures of old artworks at their website which I'd love
>to plunder. But it would be nice to establish the legal
>status of doing so under British law.
>
>And that's right, there's a nasty little Copyright tag
>there at the bottom of the page. They also have a copyright
>statement in English:
>
>http://www.kb.dk/elib/ophavsret/index-en.htm
>
>As for Danish copyright laws it seems from my non-lawyer
>reading that they "protect" any photograph, regardless
>of creativity. I hope this sort of non-sense wouldn't
>hold up in a Danish court but I really don't know if
>it would.
>
Many of these things cannot be settled without going to court in each 
separate country, and the putative copyright holders know that the mere 
idea of landing in court can be a deterrent even when the chance of the 
court upholding the copyright is negligible. 

Lego is a good example of a Danish company that actively pursues 
intellectual property rights against Megablocks in one country after 
another, and consistently loses.

Ec

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