Talk:Norwegian banknotes

The text in this entry is word for word the same as in the linked webpage and that page was this notice: © 2002 Norges Bank. Does the wikipedian who made this article have permission to use that text? --mav

The same way you put it in; just hit edit and delete most of the copyrighted text (it shouldn't really matter that the text is still in the history -- the history is not visible to search engines). Although the best thing to do is leave in the information but rewrite it in your own words. Facts and information are not copyrightable and I would love to see somebody try to sue us for using their facts and data when we present it in our own words. --mav

Removed it completely. What I meant was that I want to remove a reproduction of the 200 kroner note that I found at http://www.fys.uio.no/plasma/english/texts/birkeland/ and uploaded as /upload/8/8f/NOK200front.png /upload/8/8f/NOK200back.png

-- Ole

Unless the nation of Norway itself is claiming copyright I don't think any simple scan can have a unique and separate copyright. The same is true for any text scaned from a public domain book -- just because the book was scanned in last year doesn't mean the the resulting text is not also public domain. -- mav

Uncertain whether Norges Bank does claim copyright on the notes. But I added the original note on reproduction, that I now removed! I don't want to be on thin ice. I'm going to give them a call later. -- Ole

Also, the article titles (all the Norwegian currency denominations, so it seems) should be different. "Kroner" is the Norwegian plural, but English is "krones" and the Swedes and Danes also have the same name for their currency and the same notes, so the title should be something like "Norwegian 100 krones (bank)note". Jheijmans

Fixed in the Norwegian notes and Norwegian coins nodes. Thank you!