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Copyright

Mjb1981 has published today three images of current passport covers, claiming in one case that its reproduction is permitted by the British Government's Open Government Licence. It is not. I repeat my warning of a year ago (Archive 1, #50 Copyright):

Query the copyright status of copies of passport covers, at least those less than 50 years old. The British government's Open Government Licence specifically exempts (excludes) from the licence "identity documents such as the British Passport". Errantius (talk) 12:56 pm, 27 December 2019, Friday (1 year, 19 days ago) (UTC+11)

The cover of the post-Brexit British Citizen passport has been reproduced here, but it seems ok for copyright since it is from a Home Office website. However, as to "own work" photos of earlier covers, I repeat my warning—with quotation from the Open Government Licence and with my emphasis in the last item:

Exemptions

This licence does not cover:

personal data in the Information;
Information that has not been accessed by way of publication or disclosure under information access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider;
departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset;
military insignia;
third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;
other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design rights; and
identity documents such as the British Passport [my emphasis]

Errantius (talk) 00:48, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted my changes following this clarification.

Mjb1981 (talk) 12:42, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merger with other pages on British passports

I've seen a proposal to merge the pages of differing other forms of the British passport (e.g. those issued by Overseas Territories or special types of Passports, such as the BN(O) Passport) into this page. That proposal has been active since July but not acted on? Is it still an issue for discussion or should I go ahead and close it by deleting the proposed merger notice? The Historian (talk) 13:23, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]