Given the way that American's in the past have treated British copyright:

> In Chicago, I was assured by an enterprising pirate now retired, that
> the sales throughout the United States had exceeded a million; and
> although, in consequence of its having been published before the
> Copyright Convention, this has brought me no material advantage, the
> fame and popularity it has won for me among the American public is an
> asset not to be despised. [Jerome, Jerome. "Author's Advertisment" in
> Three Men in a Boat]

I think it's fair for an enterprising British attendee to return the
favour, since the image is not protected over there (or in Canada for that
matter).

Edward Corrado wrote:
> I have no idea of the legal status of the photo, I believe the length of
>  time for copyright in the USA is 75 years (unless your Disney, then it
>  is for ever), thus it still may be covered on this side of the pond. I
>  think we  need to clarify this before printing up a bunch of shirts
> with this photo.
>
> Edward - who doubts anyone will be chasing after code4lib but still, we
>  should do things "the right way"
>
> Rob Styles said the following on 1/29/2007 4:54 AM:
>> The photo is an original WWII photo from 1944, it's outside of the 50
>>  years covered by copyright here in the UK in is in use by several
>> different organisations. I believe we don't need any clearance.
>>
>> rob
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>>> Roy Tennant Sent: 26 January 2007 21:10 To: [log in to unmask]
>>>  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Polls open for Code4Lib 2007 T-Shirt design
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>>> I hate to be the one to raise this, but it seems like I must since
>>> the design is leading in the polls, but do we have (or can we
>>> obtain) the right to reproduce that photo? Roy
>>>
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