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Re:Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and pr... by sbhn on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:07PM (#17242902)
So Getty images has a whole lot of photos of the paintings in the Sistine chapel. I bet those photos are copyright the photographer, ‘yeah but that’s because it’s Getty, that’s allowed’
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Re:Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and pr... by JackCh on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:31PM (#17243106)
You seem to be very confused. Getty pays photographers for the rights to their photographs.
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Re:Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and pr... by fixermark on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:46PM (#17243994)
Taking a photograph is creation of a new copyrighted work under some now-very-old United States Law. The key idea is "transformation": it's understood that photography includes an editor's eye of what is worth taking a photograph of.

Making a copy of a public domain book does not create an independent claim of copyright to the contents of the book. You can make a case that maybe it should, but it legally does not; that's just not how it works.

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