Incidentally, since I don't think anyone mentioned it, it's my understanding that you can't get UK publication rights if you first published it in the U.S., only U.S. publication rights. [1] So that is the best thing to look into regarding publication rights. I think the assumption of copyright lapse is a good one.

Admittedly, the whole thing makes my head hurt!

--
Harry (User:Jarry1250)

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2967/regulation/17/made "4) A work qualifies for publication right protection only if—(a)first publication is in the European Economic Area..."

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
Any update to this?
Deryck

2012/2/9 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>
On 9 February 2012 17:49, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
> I am recently engaged in a conversation with [[User:Kimberlyblaker]], who
> uploaded a fair amount of old, 19th century pictures onto Commons, including
> the album of places in Cambridge (see below) which is of particular interest
> to me.
>
> What stumbled me was the copyright status of these images - are they in the
> public domain? If they aren't, is it due to publication right, and is
> Kimberly Blaker (& co.) the rightful copyright holder of them?

If they were previously unpublished - which looks likely, if this is a
personal photo album of commissioned photographs - then yes, it sounds
plausible. I'll do a little more research on this this evening and let
you know :-)


--
- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk


_______________________________________________
Wikimedia UK mailing list
wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org