Photos of Silent Film actors As a fairly new Wikipedian I was hoping to spruce up some of the silent film actors articles with photos but after studying the image uploading copyright rules I am utterly terrified of putting any images in Is any photo of a silent film actor taken before 1922 good to go Can I just take any pre 1922 photo of say Patsy Ruth Miller from a website and paste it into the article or is the digital version of the photo copyrighted material by virtue of being on someone s website I m just looking for any shortcut other than e mailing a lot of websites asking for permission although most Silent Movie fans want to spread the word about their forgotten genre and probably don t mine sharing some are very protective about their personal collections I ll post a copy of this inquiry somewhere on the wikipedia image pages too and report back if i learn anything