Comment by padraic7a
10 years ago
The original image might be out of copyright, but someone's photograph of it is not. So, if you can take your own image you can do what you want with it, but you don't have any right to someone else's photograph of it.
> Note, as we have indicated in previous posts, there is no copyright in a slavish photo reproduction of a public domain painting.
via http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/
I know that this is not true, so I linked to a site which will back me up on it.