[Foundation-l] Bridgeman v. Corel worldwide for Wikimedia Commons - yes or no?

Henning Schlottmann h.schlottmann at gmx.net
Thu Aug 21 18:00:31 UTC 2008


teun spaans wrote:
> While on holiday in Italy i took some pix of plants in a botanical garden.
> There was no admittance fee, it was publicly accessible.
> 
> Can i upload the pix of the plants I took there, or does the owner of the
> botanical garden has some form of ownership?

Plants are not covered by copyright, as they are not "works" created by
human originality. You can upload them without any problems.

Ciao Henning




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