It seems that, without announcement, Historic England have now dropped the claim that copyright-expired pre-June 1957 RAF images are still in copyright, from their Aerial Photo Explorer.
They still prevent users from downloading them. On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 11:30, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > > There has been much in the press and social media in recent days about > a new "Aerial Photograph EXplorer" made by Historic England [1]. It is > indeed a treasure trove of aerial photography, including the Aerofilms > archive, much RAF imagery, and more recent equivalents. > > Some of the material on the site, particularly RAF imagery made before > 30 June 1957, is out of copyright [2] and could be uploaded to > Wikimedia Commons. However, trying to save those images from their > individual pages (by right clicking, in Windows) results in an > interstitial stating "This image is copyrighted" [3]. > > > [1] https://historicengland.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.htm > > [2] "Crown copyright photographs created prior to 30 June 1957 have a > copyright term of 50 years from creation." - > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/United_Kingdom#Crown_copyright > > [3] Example: > https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/raf_540_78_sffo_0003 > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
