Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Swedish Model

Art F City notes a Swedish court ruling against Wikimedia, holding that "images of public art are not public domain, but belong to the artists who created the original works" and asks if "a policy like this in the US" would make “Cloud Gate” selfies illegal.  The answer is that that is the policy in the US -- i.e., the copyright to works of public art belong to the artists who created them.