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Re:14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online (2... by padraic7a on Monday November 09, 2015 @05:37AM (#10532246)
The original image might be out of copyright, but someone's photograph of it is not. So, if you can take your own image you can do what you want with it, but you don't have any right to someone else's photograph of it.
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Re:14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online (2... by guessbest on Monday November 09, 2015 @05:43AM (#10532266)
> Note, as we have indicated in previous posts, there is no copyright in a slavish photo reproduction of a public domain painting.

via http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/

I know that this is not true, so I linked to a site which will back me up on it.

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