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I'm not a lawyer, but my understanoing is that there was a commnwealth decision this way as well. Certainly at the learneds in Canada this year, this was the opinion of Canadian lawyers who discussed copyright with us. -d On Mon, 2006-12-06 at 21:57 -0400, Ed Snible wrote: > James Cummings writes: > >If they have taken a digital photograph of an object for you, > >then the IPR rests with the photographer or more usually > >institution as his employer. > > This is not true in the United States. Under "Bridgeman Art Library v. > Corel Corp", exact photographic copies are unprotectable by copyright. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_vs_Corel > > -Ed Snible > [log in to unmask] -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. +1 (403) 329-2378 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191 :@wiglaf (dapper ubuntu)