The Print Seller’s Window (1883)

Walter Goodman (11 May 1838 – 20 August 1912)

This gorgeous artwork was painted before 1900 and the artist has been dead for over a hundred years, so there is simply no question that the work is in the Public Domain, both in the UK and the USA. 

Yet the Wikipedia/Wikimedia listing blares out copyright warnings, even though information on Walter Goodman’s Wikipedia page indicated the first exhibition of this painting in 1883. 

Unfortunately I am prevented from editing out these rude warnings; which are apparently “protected” from lowly Wikipedia editors; my guess is that only Wikimedia administrators can edit copyright information.  

Such is the influence of copyright chill on the public domain. 

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