On 06/11/2007, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, I think that we should cut ourselves *some*
slack in the
depiction of copyrighted works. Very little can be photographed
otherwise - a car or a piece of technical apparatus is designed, and
thus copyrighted, and even photographing a person would be
problematic, as you'll have to reckon with their clothing designer.
Thus, allowing some depictions of copyrighted works should be
allowable. On the other hand, there are also objects that we don't
allow to be shown on pictures on commons, in particular sculpture.
Maybe if we realize what the reason is to treat these differently (and
I think we rightly do), it is easier to decide on which side scale
models fall.
This is where the UK's rather liberal FOB laws come in handy.
--
geni