geni schrieb: > 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.
That's not true. The issue is rather that the law is rather unspecific, and there's disagreement about the interpretation. -- daniel. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
