2009/8/10 Andrew Turvey <[email protected]>: > ----- "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,
Basically commons held a vote and decided to ignore that type of law. -- geni _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
