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HL HL10446
Artworks: Reprography
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11 September 2025
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Summary
To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they provide to national museums and galleries about the copyright status of exact digital reproductions of two-dimensional artworks that are in the public domain.
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11 September 2025
Written question
To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they provide to national museums and galleries about the copyright status of exact digital reproductions of two-dimensional artworks that are in the public domain.
Source: Lords
25 September 2025
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According to case law, a work will only be protected by copyright if it is original, in the sense that is the author’s ‘own intellectual creation’. It is questionable whether an unaltered reproduction of an existing work where copyright has expired could ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-09-11/HL10446
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1834622
- uk · wq-1834622 · source updated 25 September 2025