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Licensing comment

I've uploaded a slightly bigger version of the same photo found in the book Soviet Combat Aircraft of the Second World War - Volume One: Single-Engined Fighters ISBN 1-85780-0834. I'm inclined to think this is a Soviet archival photo eligible for {{PD-URAA}}, but there are no photo credits in that book (unlike later books by Gordon), and its date is uncertain. Someone not using his real name (talk) 09:38, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

In the subsequent (2005) book OKB Yakovlev: a history of the design bureau and its aircraft this photo is credited to "OKB Yakovlev". In that book, the gun photo appears together with the photo of the first Yak-9K prototype, completed at the end of 1943 before being passed to the NII VVS for trials in early 1944. So I think it's safe to assume OKB Yakovlev employees took both photos at about the same time, most likely in late 1943, possibly in early 1944. Someone not using his real name (talk) 17:42, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately, with the discovery that the 1993 Russian law gives 54 years of copyright for works made by WWII participants (including people who just worked during the war), this puts the photo's copyright expiration just over the URAA deadline of 1 Jan 1996. It's also not PD in Russia by their new 2008 law, which extended such copyrights to 74 years. So, not PD until 2018 at the earliest. Someone not using his real name (talk) 17:50, 31 July 2013 (UTC)