[Wikipedia-l] Re: comment on wikipedia

Sun Feb 1 18:31:08 UTC 2004

Yann Forget a écrit:
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> Hi,
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> Le Sunday 01 February 2004 07:06, Alex R. a écrit :
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>>Police ledgers are not copyrightable, that is public information.
>>Just like the news is not really copyrightable. That is why you can
>>use pictures of famous people and famous events. Unless their is
>>something particularly creative about the photo there is just a mechanical
>>reproduction. Sort of like the copyright of an old painting.
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> This is something new to me.
> Do you mean that, say, pictures of the 9/11 attacks are not copyrightable?
> As well as pictures of the presidents of the US?
> We have a problem with the pictures of the presidents of France which are 
> "© Présidence de la République. Documentation française".
> cf. http://www.elysee.fr/instit/fonct3.php
> Can we put these freely into Wikipedia?
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> Thanks,

I think we cannot. We do not have the same rights for public images. 
Which is why there are regularly lawsuits for pictures taken from our 
politicians or Steph de Monaco