A flickr Collection of all 6,288 Smithsonian images "which appear to be overwhelmingly in the public domain." Public.Resource.Org is a new non-profit and they are arguing that the the Smithsonian's images are in the public domain despite the copyright notices on the Smithsonsian's site. So they copied them to a flickr group (and even "scraped the metadata from the html pages, and embedded the metadata in the .jpg headers") and are trying to change the policy they think is illegal.Saturday, May 19, 2007
6,288 Smithsonian Images
A flickr Collection of all 6,288 Smithsonian images "which appear to be overwhelmingly in the public domain." Public.Resource.Org is a new non-profit and they are arguing that the the Smithsonian's images are in the public domain despite the copyright notices on the Smithsonsian's site. So they copied them to a flickr group (and even "scraped the metadata from the html pages, and embedded the metadata in the .jpg headers") and are trying to change the policy they think is illegal.
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