Hi,

1. Ignore them (pity)
> 2. Upload them as public domain and re-iterate the National Portrait
> Gallery issue, and teach them that these open content wiki people are not
> to be trusted
> 3. Label them CC-BY so the Wellcome Trust can get a mandatory attribution,
> which we would do anyway
>
> Personally, I'd go for #3. CC-BY is just one small step up from PD, so I
> really don't see the practical harm.
>

This is not the first time the Commons community deals with such a
situation ; I believe standard practice is to use {{Licensed-PD-Art}} [1]
which states both #2 & #3.

See for example its use for {{PD-Art-Yale}} [2]

*(“Wikimedia Commons: there’s a template for that.”)*

[1] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Licensed-PD-Art>
[2] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Art-Yale>

Hope that helps,
-- 
Jean-Frédéric
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