No I don't know about any of the legal formalities, hence asking do we need to contact them and ask whether they are willing...I mean, do they hold the copyright esp to photos of buildings also that are over 60 years old (the photos not the buildings).
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2012/5/16 Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <debast...@gmail.com>: > > Hi all, > > > > I just saw this page [1] on facebook, it supposedly belongs to the Rare > Book > > Society of India and they have a lot of old images, older than 60 years. > > Hence, do you think these can be uploaded to Wikipedia and maybe we can > ask > > them whether they themselves would like to do as such. If am not wrong, > > maybe the GLAM team would know more about this? > > > > [1] - > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rare-Book-Society-of-India/196174216674 > > That Facebook page has lots of beautiful images and not just of books. > > Any way you can get them is good, but uploading them as DjVu files > would help transcribing them in Wikisource. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place*
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