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Originally uploaded from [1], however the Cape Town government's website has been moved and restructed, so the link is dead. However, as a work of the South African government, the image qualifies as fair use as it is historically important, contribues to the quality of the Cape Town article, and is over a hundred years old.

According to American and South African law, derivitive works are protected by copyright only when the new work is different from the original, as the court ruled in Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corporation.

The Bridgeman Art Library had made photographic reproductions of famous works of art from museums around the world (works already in the public domain.) The Corel Corporation used those reproductions for an educational CD-ROM without paying Bridgeman. Bridgeman claimed copyright infringement. The Court ruled that reproductions of images in the public domain are not protected by copyright if the reproductions are slavish or lacking in originality. In their opinion, the Court noted: "There is little doubt that many photographs, probably the overwhelming majority, reflect at least the modest amount of originality required for copyright protection.... But 'slavish copying', although doubtless requiring technical skill and effort, does not qualify." [2]

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