[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the National Portrait Gallery ...

[Robert Rohde]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM,
Falcorian<alex.public.account+WikimediaMailingList at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are these images on Commons? According to [[Commons:Licensing]]:
> "Wikimedia Commons accepts only media [...] that are in the public domain in
> at least the United States and in the source country of the work."
> Is it because they are potentially PD in the UK, but it's unclear?

See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag/Straw_Poll

Especially the introductory comments.  This has been handled as a special case.

-Robert Rohde