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Smithsonian copyright and Flickr

(Via electronic museum.)

Smithsonian copyright revisited: “

Back in May 2007, there was a sudden spike in interest around the ‘outing’ of over 6,000 images from Smithsonian Images by a body calling itself public.resource.org. Essentially, they consider the images to be largely public domain, and therefore did something about it, scraping them from the Smithsonian Images site, embedding some metadata and then uploading the lot to Flickr. Read more about what and how here.

The posting of public domain images on Flickr is something I’ve been discussing here at twitchgamer and hope to develop into a formal post over at opencontentlawyer sometime soon.

See:

Flickr and copyright of public domain works

Flickr, public domain, and copyright

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