Hello,

Update regarding the court case Reiss Engelhorn Museum vs Wikimedia Commons user. The lawsuit concerns copyright claims related to 17 images of the museum’s public domain works of art, which have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

The Federal Court of Justice ruled against the Wikimedia Commons user, the high ql reproduction is copyrighted:

https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=pm&Datum=2018&Sort=3&nr=90674&pos=1&anz=195

Best,

Steinsplitter

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