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It's how copyright works unfortunately :( The creator of the content/picture own that picture unless they state it otherwise. Considering the nature of the document, it should be considered of public domain due to the broad public interest the document has.

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Not necessarily. In the US, for example, this is not true (and this is the only place I know of it being tested in court). It was ruled that faithful reproductions of 2D works lacked originality (even if they required work to produce) and so PD work does not become copyrightable :)

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_....

So in the US, certainly, I doubt this is copyrightable.

There was a case time ago, where apes, monkeys or gorillas (not sure) "stole" a camera a took pictures of themselves - now you have a copyright by a thousand monkeys...

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