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

[geni]

2009/8/10 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com>:
> ----- "ChrisiPK" <chrisipk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: "ChrisiPK" <chrisipk at gmail.com>
>> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Monday, 10 August, 2009 22:54:44 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
>> Portugal
>> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England
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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.
>
> That's interesting. How does this apply to the National Portrait Gallery
> images then? These were copies of a British digitization which, under UK
> copyright law, qualifies as a new item subject to copyright.
>
> Regards,


Basically commons held a vote and decided to ignore that type of law.

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geni