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Nag Hammadi Texts - Codex IV

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of no more than the life of the author plus 100 years.

These texts were only discovered in 1945. Thus the photograph cannot be in the public domain due to age. It is actually copyright the Institute of Antiquity and Christianity.

It is public domain due to it's nature of non-original reproduction of a work of expired copyright. Both the codex and the pages in it were created in circa 400 A.D., putting it up against a white background and photographing it does not create a new work of art. Nixdorf 20:05, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid that's not true. In the Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. case, the court ruled that any amount of creative content, including lighting, positioning, and selection of which item to include, make the work copyrightable. None of these apply in scans of 2-D art, but all of these apply here. The photo is definitely copyrighted. Sorry. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 23:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

It's definitely not copyrighted in the Netherlands due to Van Dale/Romme. [1] Suaven 16:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

By the wat, Quadell: without lightning there is not any picture, the positioning is random and the selection is not present: it's a thorough facsimile. I'm afraid you're enslaving us to the law to much, it is definitely not copyrighted. Suaven 16:30, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

~~{{Non-free fair use in|Gnosticism|Nag Hammadi library}}~~

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