On 29 June 2012 22:01, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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 <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

The site says "Crown Copyright".

On 26 June 2012 12:24, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> 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 <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> 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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