Ar you certain? With the expiration of CC the photograph is no longer copyrighted. This effectively means it enters the public domain (although it is by no means self-evident interpretation). It’s true that the expiration of copyright does not mean that the author’s intellectual rights, such as having his/her name credited with the photo, no longer apply. However, maybe it’s the original author of the photo that should be credited and not the CC.

/Martin W
The Spitfire Site

I was given this information directly from the horses mouth so to speak. To be honest, all I wanted was a ‘Yes you have our permission to use it.’ Beyond that I really did not care. Provided I had something in writing I did not delve too deeply. In fact the more I looked into it, the more complex it became.

Fantastic shots. My daughter has just got back from LA and she took a few for me on her mobile phone but not quite up to this standard 😀

It may be worth double checking on Crown Copyright. I had a photograph stamped ‘Crown Copyright’ on the back which was a Luftwaffe Target photograph of RAF Turnhouse from early on in the war which I used in my book on the History of Edinburgh Airport. I was told that any Crown Copyright photo did not require permission to be used if it was older than fifty years BUT I had to acknowledge that it was Crown copyright in the book. Any photograph which is Crown Copyright less than fifty years old required specific permission for it to be used. I don’t know if this has changed from 2006.
The Luftwaffe photograph bothered me as it was obviously taken by a Luftwaffe aircraft so I contacted the German Embassy who out me in touch with the responsible department in Germany and the lady there informed me in no uncertain terms that the picture was taken by a serving member of the Luftwaffe in a Luftwaffe aircraft using Luftwaffe equipment and that it was nothing to do with Crown Copyright. All Luftwaffe copyright become the property of the West German Government (I don’t know about the East) after the war and then the property of the German government after reunification. She ended her e mail by saying ‘I give you permission to use it’.

Si- Thanks for taking the trouble to post the pictures -very interesting. I only ever flew on one Britannia – on BOAC from Kano, Nigeria to Heathrow (Via Barcelona) on 28/8/58 and again oddly enough on the same aircraft (G-ANBH) going out from Heathrow to Kano on 6/8/62.

Good shots and nice to see some pics from an different airport to the usual.

Good report. The clouds in the first pic almost look like arctic ice.

Seriously though, to pull out of a route after 50 years says something about the state BA these days. I wonder how much of the stated reasons are ‘smoke and mirrors’ aimed at masking current difficulties within BA’s business ?

I think it says more about the state of Detroit. I was looking at a thread on a US website entitled “will the last person out of Detroit please turn out the lights” it directed me to a section entitled Detroit Ruins on Detroityes.com and it showed building after building in a state of ruin – hotels, automotive works (Chrysler/Ford/Studebaker), the YWCA building etc. Other than New Orleans (Which is slowly rebuilding), Detroit is the only major US city to have a declining population. I think BA made their money on this route from premium business passengers connected with the automotive industry which has all but collapsed. I suppose all these places can be regenerated with cash.