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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