Help photos needed

Just as an aside, if they are Crown Copyright photographs (ie anything taken officially or by anyone in uniform) they are out of copyright if taken after 31 Dec 1954 and you can use them freely.

The uniform in this case was Polish Air Force, not RAF.

sniperUK, PM me your mail address, and I will send you a CD.

Melvyn, a question if I may…

Does this mean that any photo taken by any RAF servicemember prior to 1954 is no longer subject to copyright regulations? For example, I see photos of crashed Luftwaffe A/C on ebay quite often, and they frequently reach scandalous prices… but there are often scans of the pics as well. If someone were to “freshen up” a scan of, say, Zimmerman’s 109E-1 on the beach and use them in a publication, would that constitute a copyright infringement upon the person who shelled out fistfuls of dollars for the hard copy of that photo?

(No, I’m not planning on any books, but others might find this useful)

Thanks much,

Lynn

…if taken after 31 Dec 1954…

Shouldn’t that be ‘before’? :rolleyes:

Just as an aside, if they are Crown Copyright photographs (ie anything taken officially or by anyone in uniform) they are out of copyright if taken after 31 Dec 1954 and you can use them freely.

Basicly as many as possible they will be printed and used on photo boards as part of the display.Any thing you can help me with would be welcome.

My ATC squadron have been asked to help with a WW2 exibition to be held in the Newtownards town hall from the 3rd to 21st of May. I have some photos of the local airfields Newtownards Ballyhalbert (HMS Corncrake) and Kirkistown,and a couple of 315 (Polish) Sqn at Ballyhalbert and of 231Sqn Lysanders out off Ards,If anyone has any photos or other information I can borrow or copy relating to th above stations would you please contact me .This was dropped on me last week so I am very short of time to organise this properly.

How many photos of 315 from Ballyhalbert you need?