[One thing to add is like Ratteler said. Mona Lisa may NOT be copyrighted but the medai by which Mona Lisa's image is transfered maybe. For example, I believe Bill Gates owns the copyright to displaying the Mona Lisa and most other classic works in electronic form. This means the Mona Lisa appearing as a JPG is copyrighted by Bill Gates.] Nope. http://www.panix.com/~squigle/rarin/corel2.html http://www.funnystrange.com/copyright/bridgeman.htm From the second document: "The court determined that museum reproductions, whose purpose is to duplicate the original work as precisely as possible, do not involve enough originality to be copyrighted as a derivative work."