They are sending up a pretty big permanent magnet to the ISS very soon. It is part of the AMS science experiment http://www.ams02.org/what-is-ams/tecnology/magnet/pmmagnet/ Could we call this a field test ? If the ISS drops out of the sky, i guess we will know.

Dude, no one knows, that is kinda the whole problem of 2257. In the past 6 years it has become so broad that any corner cases can only be decided in court. And that is why Google Yahoo and all those other big internet companies are ignoring those laws. So they can get sued and a judge will tell them the scope of the law.

Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Gardner

"moral copyfraud".

Yeah, in this I agree with BasilBrush somewhat earlier in the comments thread. "The law is flawed: The act of photographing a painting with the best quality of reproduction of the original is a technical exercise, not a creative act. It's not essentially different from an experienced photocopier operator making a photocopy."

Indeed. This is not really a case of legal copyfraud, it's more about moral copyfraud. They might have the right to claim and exert their copyright on these photos perhaps, but in the light of their mission, it is a form of moral copyfraud, to do so, when the photos are of art works that are in the Public Domain. I advise people to read: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud/ and http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/02/more-attacks-on-institutional-copyfraud.html

You misinterpreted the poll. The poll was only to confirm if the community would follow the position of the WMF, or stand by it's previous guidelines under which these images would not have been allowed because they were from the UK. So the position of the WMF was not based on the outcome of the poll, it predated the poll.