[Commons-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England

[ChrisiPK]

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Images on Commons need to be free in the US and the country of origin. If I
understand correctly, these images are from the UK, but the PD status to
pre-1923 images only applies to US images.

Regards,

ChrisiPK

Andrew Turvey schrieb:
> 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: 
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> http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj 
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> 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: 
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> http://tinyurl.com/npay5t 
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> 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 
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