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A news item involving World Digital Library was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 21 April 2009.

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"Free of charge"

While the user does not have to pay to access materials on the WDL, they are not copyright free. The Legal Notice section says the following: Content found on the WDL Web site is contributed by WDL partners. Copyright questions about partner content should be directed to that partner. When publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in a WDL partner's collections, the researcher has the obligation to determine and satisfy domestic and international copyright law or other use restrictions.

So I think a section on licensing should be included - I'll add one. – ukexpat (talk) 13:14, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]