File talk:Millais - Ophelia.jpg

"Copyright" in 1852? Nonsense!

in the 'Licensing' section of this image file's page it says, literally:

“ Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

”

The 'Ophelia' painting was made between 1851 and 1852. Does anybody seriously believe that the Copyright concept had been invented by that time? If it wasn't, to say that "its Copyright has expired" is simply a silly lie. --AVM (talk) 03:03, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

The concept of 'copyright' was "invented" in 1709 or so - see history of copyright and Statute of Anne. DS (talk) 15:27, 17 February 2009 (UTC)