Comments on: National Library of NZ Flickr feed

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:33:33 +0000

To my knowledge, all of the images being published on Flickr by the LOC in the U.S. are also out of copyright and may be freely reproduced. It’s always a good idea to credit the photographer on out-of-copyright work, but I don’t think it’s actually required, since the work is part of the public domain. And if the photographer is unknown, how could someone credit him/her anyway?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:42:55 +0000

According to ATLs own factsheet (http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz/pdfs/ATL_Timeframes_reproduction_copyright_factsheet.pdf), photos by unknown photographers – like this one – go out of copyright 50 years from when the photo was taken. In this case 1930.

As it is out of copyright (*way out*), I see no reason why you cannot reproduce it here.

By: Courtney Johnston

Courtney Johnston — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:53:25 +0000

Hi Miraz

Great to see you’re enjoying the images! I’ve just check with Tunrbull Library staff, and you’re welcome to reproduce the image here (with credit info) . You can copy the image from Flickr, or following the ‘Find out more’ link in the caption info will take you to the image on our Timeframes website, http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz .

We’ve been on Flickr for a bit longer than LOC, but we’re watching their partnership with Flickr with interest, and have contacted them to find out more. I blogged about this on our LibraryTechNZ blog

http://librarytechnz.natlib.govt.nz/2008/01/flickr-and-library-of-congress-launch.html

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:39:56 +0000

This is great! Oddly enough, in the U.S., the Library of Congress started the same program on Flickr recently. It’s putting all kinds of incredible public domain historic photos in a place we can all see and learn from them. The URL, for those interested, is http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/