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

[Michael Peel]

Rather than taking that approach, it would be much better if we could  
try to co-operate with them to upload their photos to Wikipedia,  
complete with metadata, etc. As such, I've just emailed them to see  
if they're interested in uploading some of their images to Commons.

Mike

On 10 Aug 2009, at 18:56, Andrew Turvey wrote:

> I've recently come across the following website that publishes a  
> large number of old photographs held in local council archives in  
> Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj
>
> Many of the pictures are still in-copyright and have been released  
> for private use only. However, many are pre-1923 and hence  
> copyright expired, such as:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/npay5t
>
> Would it be copyright-compliant for someone, particularly someone  
> based in the US, to upload these photos to Commons based on the  
> principles of PD-ART?
>
> Andrew
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