<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>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:<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj">http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj</a><br><br>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:<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/npay5t">http://tinyurl.com/npay5t</a><br><br>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?<br><br>Andrew<br></div></body></html>