Category:Images from the Imperial War Museum

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The Imperial War Museum online archives includes images from German photographers during and before WWII. These may be considered property of the Ministry of Information after having been seized or received during war action, bringing them under Crown Copyright provisions. Though they may be consequently public domain in the UK, it may be that they are not suitable for publication in Germany as the rights of any named photographer may still apply there. Consequently, to be hosted on Commons, photographs from named German photographers who have not been dead for 70 years or longer, will require a reuse licence that can apply in Germany, in addition to the expired Crown Copyright in the UK.

Note, this correspondence between the Imperial War Museum and Fæ in January 2013 with regard to uploading images of photographs and scans to Wikimedia Commons, taken from their websites and online catalogue.