<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>----- "ChrisiPK" <chrisipk@gmail.com> wrote:
<br>> From: "ChrisiPK" <chrisipk@gmail.com><br>> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br>> Sent: Monday, 10 August, 2009 22:54:44 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal<br>> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England<br>><br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1<br>> <br>> Images on Commons need to be free in the US and the country of origin. If I<br>> understand correctly, these images are from the UK, but the PD status to<br>> pre-1923 images only applies to US images.<br><br>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.<br><br>Regards,<br></div></body></html>