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

[Yann Forget]

Andrew Turvey wrote:
>> 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.

That's what the NPG and most medias say, but it is not even sure. Here
is an opinion by a professional UK lawyer:
http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/2009/07/national-portrait-gallery-photographs.html

> Regards,

Yann

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