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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8012680, member: 74282&quot;]In the case of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp." target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp." rel="nofollow">Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp</a>, federal court held that photographic reproductions of visual works in the public domain were not copyrightable because they lacked originality. Obviously, there can be no copyright claims at this point on an authentic ancient coin, so they fit the bill as public domain. One of the pieces of evidence used against Bridgeman was that the entire goal of their creation of the photographs of these paintings was reproducing the objects with absolute fidelity, as opposed to creating some sort of new original work, quite similar to the goals of most photos of coins. Assuming other courts would follow that same reasoning, I don&#039;t know how the average coin photo could be copyrightable but I am also not a lawyer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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