I don't think so - I think they're probably still copyrighted to the
"Aerofilms collection"...

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On 26 June 2012 12:10, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote:

> You may have seen a buzz on social media in the last couple of days,
> about a new website, 'Britain from the Air':
>
>    http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/
>
> which features <http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/about-project>:
>
>    images from the Aerofilms collection... Dating from 1919 to
> 2006... purchased by Royal
>    Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland,
> English Heritage
>    and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments
> of Wales... in 2007.
>
> The site-wide copyright statement, on
> <http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/legalities>, is somewhat
> ambiguous:
>
>    The images, information and data featured on this website are
> subject to Crown Copyright
>    and other Intellectual Property Rights held by the Partners and
> Individual Contributors as
>    indicated. There are also copyrights relating to the database
> itself and to the design, structure
>    and code employed in the website.
>
> Has anyone found an image on the site with a copyright notice
> excepting it from the default Crown Copyright?
>
> Presumably, the use of Crown Copyright means that we're at liberty to
> use images that are over 50 years old,  like this 1928 shot of
> Birmingham:
>
>
> http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw022585?search=birmingham&ref=10
>
> on Commons and Wikipedia?
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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