[Commons-l] Old works in public domain vs. US Copyright Law

[Daniel Kinzler]

> I don't know, but I suspect that many of the images that are PD-UK would 
> be useable under fair use in the USA. If so would it be possible to use a 
> dual licesnse along the lines of "This images is public domain in the 
> United Kingdom and other countries that use death+70. In the United States 
> this image is contended to be fair use because of xyz" ?

Images are never "fair use" on their own. Specific uses may be fair, for *any*
image. There's no such thing as a collection of fair use images, by definition.

-- Daniel