Digitization of public domain works
The dispute between the Mannheim Reiss-Engelhorn Museums and Wikimedia sets a new precedent on the subject of copyright on the Internet. More precisely, this involves the digitization of public domain works. The reason for this case was a photo of a painting by Richard Wagner, which was taken by the in-house photographer of the Mannheim Reiss-Engelhorn Museums. According to the Stuttgarter Zeitung, the image was [...]