[Commons-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England

[Andrew Turvey]

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> Images on Commons need to be free in the US and the country of origin. If I 
> understand correctly, these images are from the UK, but the PD status to 
> pre-1923 images only applies to US images. 

That's interesting. How does this apply to the National Portrait Gallery images then? These were copies of a British digitization which, under UK copyright law, qualifies as a new item subject to copyright. 

Regards, 
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