It would be good to see what they come back with. They already release low res images on
the website for free personal non-commercial use, and they say they've researched all
the copyright holders, so we may be lucky with this one.
Having said that, I don't think it's an "either - or" situation. If
things are available and legally in the public domain we should take full advantage of
that, notwithstanding any agreements we may be able to make with the archive holders.
----- "Michael Peel" <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
From: "Michael Peel"
<email(a)mikepeel.net>
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, 10 August, 2009 23:31:46 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England
Rather than taking that approach, it would be much better if we could
try to co-operate with them to upload their photos to Wikipedia,
complete with metadata, etc. As such, I've just emailed them to see
if they're interested in uploading some of their images to Commons.
Mike
On 10 Aug 2009, at 18:56, Andrew Turvey wrote:
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:
http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj
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:
http://tinyurl.com/npay5t
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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