Well any that were originally Crown Copyright and originally published more
than 50 years ago are public domain. The trouble is likely to be sifting out
which, if nay, of the images fit that description.
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From: Richard Symonds <[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, 29 June 2012, 22:01
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Copyright of images on 'Britain from the Air'
website
Not quite - the "legalities" section says " 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."
Bit of a pain, but I suspect that the copyright of most of the image is murky
at best :s
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On 29 June 2012 21:18, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote:
The site says "Crown Copyright".
>
>
>On 26 June 2012 12:24, Richard Symonds <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> I don't think so - I think they're probably still copyrighted to the
>> "Aerofilms collection"...
>>
>> Richard Symonds
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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?
>>>
>>> --
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