Tagged With: Reiss Engelhorn Museum

This paper reviews the pressing need for providing access to the public domain free of restrictions, it details the rationale behind the chain of court decisions in the Reiss Engelhorn Museum's lawsuit against the Wikimedia community, and it outlines how copyright claims in reproductions impact the dissemination of knowledge and public participation in the appreciation and generation of cultural content.

This blog post summarises the result of the Regional Court of Berlin's decision to recognise protection in 17 reproductions of public domain works made by the Reiss Engelhorn Museum, which were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

This article reviews the Regional Court of Berlin's decision in favor of the Reiss Engelhorn Museum, ruling photographs of public domain paintings are protected by the section 72 copyright-related right of the German Copyright Act.

This blog post responds to the lawsuit filed by the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany, against Wikimedia Foundation in regards to 17 images of public domain artworks which were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.