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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