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Wikipedia Launches “Wiki Unseen,” Commissioning Artists To Paint Portraits of BIPOC Figures

by Jasmine Liu February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

The new initiative aims to increase visual representation by adding images of individuals who are not currently portrayed on their Wikipedia pages.

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The Unsettling Story of a Creative Commons Photo Scam

by Valentina Di Liscia January 1, 2021January 2, 2021

Photographer Kyle Cassidy released one of his images into the public domain. Years later, someone else took credit for it.

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Help Write the History of Radio in Grassroots Organizing

by Eric Vilas-Boas August 20, 2019August 20, 2019

The Interference Archive is organizing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to widely disseminate the history explored in its exhibition Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves.

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UK Affirms that Photographs of Public Domain Art Are Fair Use

by Allison Meier December 14, 2015December 14, 2015

An ongoing dispute with digital cultural heritage is whether high-resolution images of artworks in the public domain have a copyright when the photograph itself is new or improved.

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Museum Sues Wikimedia for Hosting Copyrighted Photos of Its Public-Domain Artworks

by Benjamin Sutton December 8, 2015December 9, 2015

On October 28 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum (REM) in Mannheim, Germany, filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for making high-resolution images of public domain artworks from its collection available for download.

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