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Summary

Britain Needs You at Once

Author

Adam Cuerden (restoration)

Title

Britain Needs You at Once

Series title

Parliamentary Recruiting Committee posters

Publisher

Parliamentary Recruiting Committee

Printer

Spottiswoode & Co.

Object type

poster

Description

A WWI British recruitment poster. The Imperial War Museum identifies this as Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No. 108. It also points out that St. George and the Dragon served as a national symbol for several parties in the conflict (which includes Germany, ironically enough).

Library of Congress Description:

Title: Britain needs you at once^{[sic: the LoC uses weird capitalization rules]} / printed by Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. London E.C.

Date Created/Published: London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, [1915]

Medium: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 50 cm.

Summary: Poster showing St. George slaying the dragon; scene in roundel format.

Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-11248 (color film copy transparency)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see "World War I Posters" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/243_wwipos.html)

Call Number: POS - Gt Brit .P37, no. 4 (C size) [P&P]

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Date

1915

Publication date

1915

Medium

ink and lithograph on paper

Dimensions

height: 764 mm (30 in)

; width: 509 mm (20 in)

Collection

Canadian War Museum

	Native name	Canadian War Museum
	Location	Ottawa
	Coordinates	45° 25′ 02″ N, 75° 43′ 02″ W
	Established	1880
	Website	warmuseum.ca
	Authority file	: Q1032442 VIAF: 155854736 ISNI: 0000000096056260 LCCN: n50053228 SUDOC: 116491701 J9U: 987007259193405171 WorldCat

Australian War Memorial

	Native name	Australian War Memorial
	Location	Canberra
	Coordinates	35° 16′ 50.93″ S, 149° 08′ 55.35″ E
	Established	May 1917
	Website	http://www.awm.gov.au/
	Authority file	: Q782783 VIAF: 158909256 ISNI: 0000000406131108 LCCN: n50069264 OSM: 7527080 SUDOC: 12741410X WorldCat

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

	Location	Wellington City , New Zealand
	Coordinates	41° 17′ 26″ S, 174° 46′ 55″ E
	Established	14 February 1998
	Authority file	: Q915603 VIAF: 142708240 ISNI: 0000000404834475 ULAN: 500311561 LCCN: no94036107 NLA: 35387558 WorldCat

Imperial War Museum London

	Native name	Imperial War Museum
	Parent institution	Imperial War Museums
	Location	Lambeth Road London SE1 6HZ United Kingdom
	Coordinates	51° 29′ 44.99″ N, 0° 06′ 31.18″ W
	Established	1917
	Website	www.iwm.org.uk
	Authority file	: Q749808 VIAF: 122881932 ISNI: 0000000404263238 ULAN: 500301821 LCCN: n80044915 NLA: 36555711 WorldCat

National Army Museum

	Native name	National Army Museum
	Parent institution	Council of the National Army Museum
	Location	London, UK
	Coordinates	51° 29′ 09.96″ N, 0° 09′ 36″ W
	Established	1960
	Website	www.nam.ac.uk
	Authority file	: Q731616 VIAF: 128587192 ISNI: 0000000406194045 LCCN: n50067415 SUDOC: 026550008 J9U: 987007393014605171 WorldCat

Accession number

19720028-005 (Canadian War Museum)
ARTV01139 (Australian War Memorial)
GH016313 (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)
Art.IWM PST 0408 (Imperial War Museum London)
NAM. 1977-06-81-21 (National Army Museum)

Place of creation

United Kingdom

Inscriptions

recto:
PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON. POSTER No. 108.
recto:
PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND Co. L.T.D. LONDON, E.C.

References

Source/Photographer

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3g11248.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Permission
(Reusing this file)

I'm not quite sure which of two situations applies, but both result in this image being out of copyright by 1966.

This was created by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, which implies this came under crown copyright, which would have expired on January 1, 1966.

This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.

This is because it is one of the following:

It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
It was published prior to 1975; or
It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1975.

HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply)
More information.

See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.

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However, if it didn't, since the artist is unknown - neither the Library of Congress nor the Imperial War Museum have been able to identify the artist - because of that, even if it doesn't come under Crown Copyright, it's out of copyright due to:

This UK artistic or literary work, of which the author is unknown and cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry, is in the public domain because it is one of the following:

A photograph, which has never previously been made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) and which was taken more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955); or

A photograph, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955); or

An artistic work other than a photograph (e.g. a painting), or a literary work, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955).

This tag can be used only when the author cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry. If you wish to rely on it, please specify in the image description the research you have carried out to find who the author was. The above is all subject to any overriding publication right which may exist. In practice, publication right will often override the first of the bullet points listed.

Unpublished anonymous paintings remain in copyright until at least 1 January 2040. This tag does not apply to engravings or musical works. More information

Britain had a 50-year copyright until 1996, so, under this situation, this would still have gone out of copyright on January 1, 1966. So, either way, it's out of copyright.

The American situation is simple: This was published before 1923, so...

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:10, 30 July 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (6.65 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Little too bright in the lower range
	21:45, 30 July 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (6.85 MB)	Adam Cuerden	further shadow tweaks
	21:35, 30 July 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (6.85 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Levels tweaks to bring out dark bits, remove shadow on left.
	17:39, 6 February 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (6.06 MB)	Adam Cuerden	grr
	17:32, 6 February 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (6.06 MB)	Adam Cuerden	And a few more.
	23:03, 5 February 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (6.06 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Even... more final tweaks
	22:55, 5 February 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (6.06 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Final tweaks
	22:41, 5 February 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (5.73 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Border tweaks
	22:34, 5 February 2013	2,534 × 3,852 (5.74 MB)	Adam Cuerden	{{Information \|Description= A WWI British recruitment poster. The Imperial War Museum [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/27762 identifies] this as Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No. 108. It also points out that St. George and the...