----- "ChrisiPK" <chrisipk@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "ChrisiPK" <chrisipk@gmail.com>
> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Monday, 10 August, 2009 22:54:44 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England
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> 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.

Regards,