Mike Could I just check, please, whether you were just replying to an out-of-the-blue email from Klaus or whether you have replied after a review of [[Commons:Deletion requests/National Portrait Gallery images (first set)]] where your email has now been publicly quoted. The policy we at Commons have been working to is that images must be free in both the US and in the source country. I assume that is still the WMF general position? The problem in the UK is that - contrary to what Klaus said - there is now a binding Court of Appeal judgement (Hyperion Records v Sawkin) which makes it very clear that the Bridgeman principle will _not _stand up in a UK court. You can find details of the UK case law at [[Commons talk:When to use the PD-Art tag#Reply to call for revision <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#Reply_to_call_for_revision> ]]. If it's official WMF policy that Bridgeman is assumed to apply in all countries, even in countries where there is jursiprudence to say that it will not, a formal statement to that effect would be most helpful. It will mean we can keep the NPG images, and quite a few others, and we can also dismantle much of the policy we have put in place to ensure that this issue is looked at on a country-by-country basis. We can for example delete the policy page [[Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag]] almost entirely. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#Reply_to_call_for_revision> regards Michael Mike Godwin wrote: