There definitely are many images from LAC on Wikimedia which are not PD - I'm sure many of them also aren't tagged with {{LAC}}, or aren't on Commons, but Canadian history articles are full of LAC images which are too new.
From the second page of [[category:Images from Library and Archives
Canada]]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ben_Johnson_Seoul_1988.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:BrianOrser1988Olympics.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:FlorenceBird.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Jean_Chretien.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Kim_Campbell.jpg
Given how these are all from the 1980s, I don't see how they could be PD.
If LAC is illegally asserting copyright over PD images, then I agree that we should ignore them. However, there are clearly uploaders out there who are under the impression that LAC has grant copyrighted free use, when it has not.
2008/5/4 Henning Schlottmann h.schlottmann@gmx.net:
Padraic Ryan wrote:
Right now there are 1,300 images in [[Category:Images from Library and Archives Canada]]. While many are PD, many others have been tagged as {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} due to some ambiguous language on the LAC
website.
Last fall I emailed them to ask about this, and they finally replied -
turns
out my suspicion was correct, and our current use violates their
license.
Is there someone I should be forwarding this to? Assuming they are
right,
some mass deletions are in order. Curiously, they also seem to be
asserting
control over those images which are now PD.
Have you considered that they are wrong in their interpretation of the copyright status? As far as I know, Canada has the rule of 70y pma and therefore all the images I reviewed just now are in the public domain. They can ask, demand and what ever, nothing they can do give them any right to determine the use of those images.
Ciao Henning
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