[Commons-l] 100 years old images

[Stan Shebs]

contact at robinschwab.ch wrote:
> [...] It's the oldest (228y) newspaper in
> Switzerland and the one with the best reputation. They have their own legal
> service with copyright specialists. 
>   
Most likely they requested permission and received it. I regularly get 
requests for permission to use my images in all sorts of publications, 
even though the images are already tagged with free licenses. One time 
when I mentioned that, I got a reply back saying "yes, we know the image 
is free, but we always make the request anyway". Granting permission to 
use promotional images is so routine that we have to phrase our requests 
for a free-license image carefully, so that they understand that we are 
asking for far more than simple permission to use.

Stan