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:
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:
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
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:
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:
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?
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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:
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:
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?
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