On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Falcorianalex.public.account+WikimediaMailingList@gmail.com wrote:
Why are these images on Commons? According to [[Commons:Licensing]]: "Wikimedia Commons accepts only media [...] that are in the public domain in at least the United States and in the source country of the work." Is it because they are potentially PD in the UK, but it's unclear?
See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag/Straw_P...
Especially the introductory comments. This has been handled as a special case.
-Robert Rohde