No I don't know about any of the legal formalities, hence asking do we need to contact them and ask whether they are willing...I mean, do they hold the copyright esp to photos of buildings also that are over 60 years old (the photos not the buildings).
2012/5/16 Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <debastein@gmail.com>:
> Hi all,That Facebook page has lots of beautiful images and not just of books.
>
> I just saw this page [1] on facebook, it supposedly belongs to the Rare Book
> Society of India and they have a lot of old images, older than 60 years.
> Hence, do you think these can be uploaded to Wikipedia and maybe we can ask
> them whether they themselves would like to do as such. If am not wrong,
> maybe the GLAM team would know more about this?
>
> [1] - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rare-Book-Society-of-India/196174216674
Any way you can get them is good, but uploading them as DjVu files
would help transcribing them in Wikisource.
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