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This image may not be in the public domain, even if the original painting is: http://jssgallery.org/Personal/Copyright_Issues.htm

Niek Sanders 14:28, 20 September 2007 (CDT)

photographs of public domain works are themselves public domain. The Supreme Court has ruled that there has to be a genuine creative act to make something copyrightable. (for example, turing a photo into a three-dimensional physical object). An exact copy has never made the cut. Richard Jensen 14:54, 20 September 2007 (CDT)