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@mikepeel.net> wrote:
> From: "Michael Peel" <email@mikepeel.net>
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l@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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