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On 26 June 2012 12:10, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

You may have seen a buzz on social media in the last couple of days,
about a new website, 'Britain from the Air':

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/

which features <http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/about-project>:

images from the Aerofilms collection... Dating from 1919 to
2006... purchased by Royal
Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland,
English Heritage
and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments
of Wales... in 2007.

The site-wide copyright statement, on
<http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/legalities>, is somewhat
ambiguous:

The images, information and data featured on this website are
subject to Crown Copyright
and other Intellectual Property Rights held by the Partners and
Individual Contributors as
indicated. There are also copyrights relating to the database
itself and to the design, structure
and code employed in the website.

Has anyone found an image on the site with a copyright notice
excepting it from the default Crown Copyright?

Presumably, the use of Crown Copyright means that we're at liberty to
use images that are over 50 years old, like this 1928 shot of
Birmingham:

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw022585?search=birmingham&ref=10

on Commons and Wikipedia?

--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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