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In Sweden the highest court ruled that the distribution of photographs of public art is a breach of copyright. Wikimedia got sued and lost. https://blog.wikime

• tastroder 7y ago
  In Germany, the country in question here, the current stance of the federal supreme court (links to Wikipedia case below, ruling is dated 12/2018) seems to be that even photography of public domain works can retain copyright with the museum. To be clear, I find both that stance and the behaviour of the organisation behind the museum appaling but I'm really not sure how US copyright law or unrealized EU directives are all that relevant. Intellectual property rights in Germany are complicated and when in doubt usually err on the side of copyright holders. http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/02/digitized-images-of-works-in-public_19.html?m=1 http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/02/digitized-images-of-wor... https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Text=I%20ZR%20104/17 https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Text=I%...
• cxr 7y ago
  This doesn't refute what Animats wrote. In copyright law, "public domain" has a very specific meaning (and it's not "art displayed in public").