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 -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
