11/27/2023 0 Comments British library newsletter![]() It includes creativity and not just mechanical reproduction. Because you make creative choices about shadows and angles and whatnot. Similarly, if you photographed a 3-D object like a statue, your photo is copyrightable. Now if you copied an old PD image and you drew a funny mustache on it, or used some crazy color filtering for a neat visual effect, THAT image would be copyrightable. The resulting repackaged image is still PD. It doesn't matter how much time, money and effort went into copying it. Courts have consistently ruled that a simple reproduction of an image lacks sufficient originality to qualify for copyright protection. courts, anyway) this claim has consistently not held up. A lot of people think they have a copyright on a scan or a photo of a public domain image that they happened to do, but (in U.S. >You missed one small detail: Microsoft digitized/ photographed the images, and from a legal point of view, those images are copyrighted.<<Īctually. The Digital Public Library of America Launches Today, Opening Up Knowledge for AllĬornell Launches Archive of 150,000 Bird Calls and Animal Sounds, with Recordings Going Back to 1929 The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come) The Rijksmuseum Puts 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces Online, and Lets You Remix Its Art To learn more about this British Library initiative, read this other Open Culture post which takes a deeper dive into the image collection. ![]() And the picture features, according to the text, a “Typical figure, showing tendency of student life–stooping head, flat chest, and emaciated limbs.” It’s hard to know what to say about that. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education and self-government. (See below.) It’s from an 1894 book called T he United States of America. The latter happens to include a curious image. You can jump into the entire collection here, or view a set of highlights here. In fairly short order, the Library plans to release tools that will let willing participants gather information and deepen our understanding of everything in the Flickr Commons collection. And so they’re turning to crowdsourcing for answers. (For example, the image above comes from Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y islas de Tierra Firme, 1867.) But they don’t know much about the particulars of each visual. They know what books the images come from. The librarians behind the project freely admit that they don’t exactly have a great handle on the images in the collection. The images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain. We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. Not to be outdone, the British Library came out with its own announcement on Thursday: Earlier this week, Oxford’s Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful.
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