Andrew Turvey wrote:
Images on Commons need to be free in the US and the country of origin.
If I
understand correctly, these images are from the UK, but the PD status to pre-1923 images only applies to US images.
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.
That's what the NPG and most medias say, but it is not even sure. Here is an opinion by a professional UK lawyer: http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/2009/07/national-portrait-gallery-photographs....
Regards,
Yann