----- "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 
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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, 
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