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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.
Regards,
ChrisiPK
Andrew Turvey schrieb:
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:
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:
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?
Andrew
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