Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com writes:
If the things that no longer exist are old enough, then any existing photographs will be public domain.
Yes, but does this mean we can use their files? In Germany it isn't allowed: the files are protected for a couple of year (Leistungsschutz: somebody took the pain digitizing old manuscripts and you are not allowed to reuse these files for your own project).
Let's hope archive.org will survive long enough.