----- "ChrisiPK" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "ChrisiPK" <[email protected]> > To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <[email protected]> > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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,
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