It would be good to see what they come back with. They already release low res images on the website for free personal non-commercial use, and they say they've researched all the copyright holders, so we may be lucky with this one.
Having said that, I don't think it's an "either - or" situation. If things are available and legally in the public domain we should take full advantage of that, notwithstanding any agreements we may be able to make with the archive holders. ----- "Michael Peel" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "Michael Peel" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 10 August, 2009 23:31:46 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England > > Rather than taking that approach, it would be much better if we could > try to co-operate with them to upload their photos to Wikipedia, > complete with metadata, etc. As such, I've just emailed them to see > if they're interested in uploading some of their images to Commons. > > Mike > > On 10 Aug 2009, at 18:56, Andrew Turvey wrote: > > > I've recently come across the following website that publishes a > > large number of old photographs held in local council archives in > > Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj > > > > Many of the pictures are still in-copyright and have been released > > for private use only. However, many are pre-1923 and hence > > copyright expired, such as: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/npay5t > > > > Would it be copyright-compliant for someone, particularly someone > > based in the US, to upload these photos to Commons based on the > > principles of PD-ART? > > > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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