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unnecessary, no longer needed PreciousRoi 22:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can see theres no need for any of the ILMap-doton-*.PNG files anymore, someone with more experience/knowhow than me could do a mass RfD on them. PreciousRoi 22:21, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. No valid reason given. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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image is posted also in this forum: http://razonyfuerza.mforos.com/549911/2756079-infanteria-de-marina-armada-de-chile/, I dont believe, that it is self-made, probably a copyright violation Martin H. (talk) 22:02, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

+Image Image:Desembarco 888.jpg, same low resolution, very probably not own wor of the uploader. --Martin H. (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Copyvio. Yann (talk) 12:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Card design is copyrighted to Wizards of the Coast, Inc. This image must not be under GFDL and is against the Commons License Policy, see COM:DW Zirland 19:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted as derivative work. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 16:16, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No info supporting that the image is PD-old. The image source is [6] where it is stated that the CoA was addopted in 1912 but it says notihing about who drew this version of the image and when it was drawn. Lokal_Profil 17:23, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleting per nom. There's an SVG anyway, so no big deal. -mattbuck (Talk) 00:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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reduntant image Highshines 19:13, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Redundant to.... ? Megapixie 23:49, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

KeepThe nomination doesn't even say which image it is redundant to, and this image is still in use. Jackaranga 06:29, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. If you believe the image you uploaded is a copyright violation as you have stated with other images, please feel free to state your case in another deletion request, but please explain why it is a copyright violation. Patstuart (talk) 20:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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no source info. copyrighted image 142.103.203.137 16:44, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

image description page (with source!) restored. If the picture is copyrighted otherwise and PD-China is not applicable, please state why. --Svencb 17:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I have restored the page again. However the person blanking it this time is the uploader. I suggest we take the license as invalid. --Simonxag 14:46, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. per Simonxag abf /talk to me/ 19:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I uploaded this picture again erroneously. It was already uploades here in better quality Image:Geisha Kyoto Gion.jpg Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 01:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted as requested. Nice shirt, btw. ~Kylu (u|t) 03:49, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I accidentally uploaded this instead of its corresponding SVG version, which has now been uploaded here. This PNG was generated from that SVG, so it is easy to recreate. I don't think it is used in an article. Not sure this qualifies for badname, but I think PNGs generated from SVGs are often deleted (as opposed to source PNGs). Carl Lindberg 08:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 06:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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my image, duplicate --Ante Perkovic 11:42, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. ChristianBier 13:17, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Doubt claim of own work... See also all other contributions of User:Marie1981. Megapixie 13:23, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted this and all of the uploader's uploads. All copyfraud. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 18:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Probably copyvio on Flickr. Small size. Lacks EXIF. Looks like official portrait. EugeneZelenko 16:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 06:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Old Stock.xchng image (uploaded March 2005) without permission. See Commons:Stock.xchng images. GeorgHHtalk   21:17, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted by Stahlkocher (talk contribs). --Boricuæddie 21:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Very, very bad quality. Out of focuse, blured, etc.. ALE! ¿…? 13:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

... but is is in use, so Keep Multichill 23:09, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Where? (Check usage does not work) --ALE! ¿…? 13:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
nl:Wetenschappelijke promotie (small so you dont really see the bad quality). Multichill 15:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Requested for rename. abf /talk to me/ 18:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Bad quality: out of focus EugeneZelenko 16:42, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


speedy keep. No new arguments, image still in use --ALE! ¿…? 21:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: Dupe of Image:Wetenschappelijke promotie.jpg. Diti the penguin 00:16, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyrighted logo of Warsaw metro. Not ineligible for copyright. Herr Kriss 01:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please go to Category:Diagrams of railway symbols and delete everything there, because every image is copyrighted anyhow. I worked a lot to create some of this images (and they are used on many wikipedias) but if you, the commons-lawyers, think it is important to delete it, feel free to do so. I hope you feel better afterwards and that you can sleep well again.

An other possibility would be to add the {{Trademarked}} license, as i did now. But in the end it's your decision... Siegele Roland 13:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Clearly ineligible! ChristianBier 13:20, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


It was kept by ChristianBier but I have reopened discussion. In my opinion it is not ineligible. On the contrary it's copyvio. So... Delete --Szczepan talk 22:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Commons:Licensing#Simple_design. When admins knowledge about such important copyright- & licensing issues is bad like yours, i'm sure, it would be good, to de-admin such admins. Admins should know copyright laws and licencing rules of the project. I want to know how you became an admin without knowing the own rules of Commons-Licensing. ChristianBier 23:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Christian, please {{be civil}}, derogating a fellow user, using a argumentum ad hominem, is hardly a way of discussing the issue with the image. I actually agree with Szczepan1990: the image is neither simple typeface nor a simple geometric shape and has certainly elements of originality. If it is not shown that such symbol is PD by any other reason, I also agree to Delete. Patrícia msg 18:47, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I am civil. And sure, my comment was hard, but correct. I am sad about the misknowledge about copyright laws of some of the admins at commons. To identify a cd-cover as a copyright is easy, but for such decisions like this one here, please let some admins decide whether delete or keep, which have the special knowledge in simple designs and copyright laws and respekt their decisions. And when you think my decision is wrong, then first discuss with me, so that I can explain my decision. But reopen and a short comment on my userpage is not the way we should go. If an admin close a deletion request, first discuss with the admin, also If you are an admin too. ChristianBier 22:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
(Ignoring the second ad hominem argument) In my humble, ignorant opinion about copyright, although the logo is itself composed by elements which are separately ineligible for copyright, the composition has elements of originality, as with the placement of the arrow on the letter M. I believe that same argument is used in logos such as the Fedex one (which is fair use on en.wikipedia). But I am indeed not a copyright expert; I still think I have a place as an admin in Commons, but you're welcome to disagree. Patrícia msg 10:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The image does not consist "entirely of information that is common property". It does contain original authorship in the shapes, selection and arrangement of its constituent elements, which go beyond standard fonts and simple geometric shapes. LX (talk, contribs) 12:59, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To finish discussion in this case I would prefer to replace PD-ineligible with PD-Polishsymbol, because it's a company owned and directed by local Government. ChristianBier 14:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
BTW: To put an arrow, an "M" and a circle together does'nt make original authorship to the logo. Where does your knowledge came from? The arrangement of common shapes NEVER can give you original authorship to a symbol. When parts of a logo are free, their composition is free to. When I put 5 public domain pictures with overlays and shadows together, I never can put a GFDL or CC-by-Licence on this work. Maybe I have to engage a lawjer, but I will send the bill for his work to the foundation. Will be very sad, but if the laws were misinterpreted by lot of admins, thats the only way we can go. ChristianBier 14:27, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I may be wrong, but PD-Polishsymbol doesn't apply to company logos owned by Polish government. Even if it apply then it's not owned by Polish gov, but by Warsaw city (http://www.metro.waw.pl/page.php?id=14 - "Właścicielem spółki jest Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa."). Herr Kriss 16:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Clearly not ineligible. Sorry, Christian, but you are to soft with Logo-Stuff, the rules are harder here than in dewiki. abf /talk to me/ 18:18, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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All photos of Jorju (talk contribs) are suspected copyvios: All without source information, all have the same date 27 de julio, but some are from the 30's to 50's (Image:Olimpicos36.jpg) and some are newer (Image:Jair Iglesias.jpg). Most images are of small size and low quality. --GeorgHHtalk   15:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Most look like they are scans from a paper etc. Copyvio. -- Deadstar (msg) 16:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Image:Campolo.jpg; Image:Omar Alberto Zegarra Tejada.gif; Image:Jair Iglesias.jpg; Image:Segundo titina castillo.JPG; Image:Sbacachi.jpg; Image:Sportboys51.jpg; Image:Ascenso.jpg; Image:Prisco Alcalde y 'Titina' Castillo en Berlín.jpg; Image:Acta fundacion.jpg; Image:Camiseta Sport Boys.jpg; Image:Valeriano Cachito.jpg; Image:Juvrosa.jpg (only a list to make the gadged working) abf /talk to me/ 18:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. abf /talk to me/ 18:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I think it's a copyvio. The uploader says 2005 in the date and the metadata says "copyright 2004". (also cropped version here --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 16:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep complex situation but the metadata also says the creation date was 27-5-2005, just 3 days before the given date. If understand the Adobe tutorial, xapRights:Copyrighted (incredibly) means This work is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/.
работа means work, so I suposse that the source reads "own work" -- Fernando Estel ☆ · 星 (Talk: here- es- en) 22:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I know it's written "own work" but that doesn't mean it's right! And the mention "copyright 2004" in the metadata made ma think there was a problem. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 07:58, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
KeepI understand Dennis. I took some shots theses day and didn't configurate the camera for this and the photos dated to 2004. These things may happen, only lacking of attention.
Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 01:33, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep'Keep' Valid photo, clear picture, self made.75.118.140.159 06:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Once again, someone makes an accusation of copyvio but provides no meaningful evidence in support. This seems to happen a lot with pictures of nudity.86.145.1.63 11:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1) I clearly stated the reason of this DR; 2) this DR is now closed so your "vote" is useless; 3) I am part of these people who clearly support nude pictures (see my history) --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 12:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Просто в настройках фотоаппарата неправильно установлена была дата. Тот факт что фотоаппарат принадлежит мне и следовательно работа моя, можно убедится просмотрев мою галерею. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Dennis_Myts
    (In adjustments of the camera date has been incorrectly established. That fact that the camera belongs to me and therefore work washing, it is possible will be convinced having seen my gallery.)--Dennis Myts 09:10, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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this is a porn picture 87.201.184.217 21:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Сто раз уже обсуждалось. --Dennis Myts (talk) 04:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Closed/Kept Never relisted (or it may have been mistakenly archived before closure). Rocket000 (talk) 23:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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porn 87.177.248.194 10:43, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Closed/Kept Never relisted (or it may have been mistakenly archived before closure). Rocket000 (talk) 23:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Obvious derivative work Ecemaml talk to me/habla conmigo 22:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. --Dodo 22:40, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. A derivative work of a copyrighted character, no matter how much artistic work has been added MichaelMaggs 06:32, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unclear copyright status. Source do not provide any specific details about this picture, nor specific date then it was taken, nor author, nor its publishing date. All this info is needed in order to release this image in PD under current license tag. I also would like to note that the 'source' or more exactly blog type 'soure' is Marxist portal 'Left', which fails to meet any reliability criteria. Particularly this became evident by reading its introduction, there media is labeled as apologue army of capitalism , army of political prostitutes , main purpose of this 'portal' is to deny current bourgeoisie’s ideology, which foundation is so called 'democracy' present 'real' history and similar hatred statements.--MX3 11:22, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment This image is made on Lithuania territory, so probably Lithuanian copyrights law shoul be applied (70 years after author death). --EugeneZelenko 15:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I am hardly understand why Lithuanian copyrights law should be applied. Tag suggests that it belongs to Soviet government.
  • Keep, the political associations of this website is no reason to delete the image. The date is obvious and given, while the copyright status if not given (I don't know, I cannot read Lithuanian) probably implies that it was taken by a Red Army official. Bogdan K 19:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • And nobody asking to delete it because of ‘political associations’. May I ask you there did you found “obvious and given” date of picture? I will answer - there is no date then this pic was taken, nor the author is given or even mentioned and no again, nothing implies that image was made by Red Army official, nor that the picture was published before January 1, 1954, nor that author died before that date. Therefore there is absolutely no vital information to determine copyright statues of this image under this tag. Speculations are not the facts.
      • The date of when the Red Army entered Kaunas is obvious, and given [by the person who uploaded the image]. This is just another instance of copyright paranoia. Bogdan K 16:28, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • How the date is given? Even the original "source" dont give any on the picture [14]. So what do you know about author/s of this pic and his/her death. As this info is needed for current tag.
  • Delete. per provided info and presented concerns, MX3 16:06, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nomination. Kelly 23:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per provided nomination and especially dubious copyright status. Scanning books or newspapers does not make photography one's own. --Lokyz 12:44, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, no proper source. — Albert Krantz 21:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Deleted. No source makes much of this discussion irrelevant. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Eligable for copyright. Possibly PD for other non stated reasons though. Lokal_Profil 14:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The creation of the flag occurred in 1541, but I do not believe the author gave permission for this image to be on. I know the image maker, so I can ask him. Original source is http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/m/mx-mrl_o.gif. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 07:02, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Any update on the situation? Otherwise Delete or retagg with {{FOTW}} ./Lokal_Profil 10:18, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, because the tag you mentioned is depreciated. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 22:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:21, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Oh dear. This may be a famous portrait, but unfortunately the original is held by the National gallery in the UK, and under UK law the PD-Art tag cannot be used: see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for details. It seems the image was first uploaded to the English Wikipedia, where it is probably OK since that site applies US law exclusively. However, on Commons the image has to be free not only in the US but also in the home country as well, and this is not free under UK law. See also Commons:Licensing#Interaction of United States copyright law and foreign copyright law. A pity, but this one will have to go.

Not sure, but the photograph of the original was surely taken in the UK. --MichaelMaggs 18:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In any case it looks identical to the version at the largest zoom at the NPG :-( (The full picture could be obtained by downloading the 120 tiles from Tile 4-0-0 to Tile 4-9-11 (4 is the zoom level, second number a column index, third number a row index) and stitching them together.) Lupo 19:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think the works of Shakespeare should be in the public domain. Therefore, don't delete.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.143.243 (talk • contribs) 06:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleting per nom. Bye bye en FP - bwahahaha! -mattbuck (Talk) 00:18, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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And/or

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Uploader requesting deletion, soon after (not used), My Bad! Duplicate, the first (to keep) found only after adding another category: Category:Anglo-Saxons will show both in top rows. --FrankB 23:50, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See also

(1) Image:Britain settlement 600.jpg,page is used by gallery and atlas, etc.
and the third:
(2) Image:Angles, Saxons, Jutes in Britain year 600.jpg...
For what it's worth, I like my title better, and it retains Shephards' Atlas' name within and mentions Shephard. This latter one seems under utilized too, and just links back to itself and a user page about duplicates. The language in the three ought be "Merged", and the best title kept. // FrankB 00:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fabartus, it's unneeded to request for deletion. Two of these three images must be speey deleted per COM:CSD. They're dupes images. You can use {{dupe|Better name image}} to add them to the dupes log. Their likes can be replaced easily using CommonsDelinker (An admin will do that before deleting). Thanks!--OsamaK 06:48, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this was taken care of. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Redundant, duplicates of Texas FM <number>.svg. There is no reason to keep these files around. --Rschen7754 05:56, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Per COM:DEL/Superseded. As no deletion argument has stated why this policy should be overlooked in this case. giggy (:O) 23:48, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Summary states Chris Kulawik, photographer. Copyright owned by Matthew Sanchez Considering the history of User:Bluemarine claiming copyright to images he does not own nor photos he took, this statement per himself makes this image unacceptable on Commons without proof. ALLSTAR echo 03:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The deletion is not being requested based on suspicion. The deletion is being requested based on the summary statement in conjunction with a previous discussion that has proven another image does not belong to the user. ALLSTAR echo 07:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You suspect that this image is not free because another image that the user uploaded is not free.
You have chosen to ignore Durova's request on Commons:Deletion requests/Image:SanchezColumbia.jpg to discuss the matter of this image with the user (which is OK; I understand that you don't want to talk with this user, or dont see the utility in doing so), but you have also not collated any background information about this image that would cast serious doubt on the image, nor have you tracked down the photographer and asked him for his input. John Vandenberg (chat) 11:50, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Other than Sanchez's own statement in the summary that someone else took the photo?? ALLSTAR echo 22:21, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The photo has been nominated for deletion because of Allstar's delusional state that he/she/it is always correct and his obvious disregard for me. The photo belongs to me, I have permission to use it. How do we proceed to register that permission? [Personal attack removed.] Bluemarine 08:22, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uh yeah, you could just explain why you have the copyright on it rather than making lame personal attacks like that, okay? Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 14:46, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Can you explain the details about this image, such as who is Chris Kulawik, in an email to permissions@wikimedia.org, or to me personally. John Vandenberg (chat) 09:38, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey, mellow out. And please stop with the personal attacks. →Rocket°°° 10:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Other than Sanchez claiming ownership and copyright to a photo that was published in a magazine a month before Sanchez uploaded it here? ALLSTAR echo 23:35, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I look at the picture, I look at the description, there is no reason to doubt. This pic was made by a guy, who was not familiar with the camera. Mutter Erde 08:26, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I have emailed several people at Radar Magazine to get their take on the photograph, since it did appear in their interview with Sanchez on March 30, 2007 at the link noted above. When I hear back, I'll follow-up. ALLSTAR echo 23:35, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - delete it until such time as copyright is established. Note that we have a defacto policy that once a few images clearly come out as delete based on copyright concerns, and if we also see that a pattern of copyright abuse is established, we delete all the user's contributions, and block the user. I'm seeing that pattern as being likely but am not ready to make the call yet. ++Lar: t/c 03:53, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Lar, I am quite sure that many of these deletions are due to good faith errors on the part of Bluemarine. For example, Image:Wall_of_shame.jpg had nothing to do with the freeness of the photo - it was simply that it contained non-free elements. These images are being put under a very high level of scrutiny coupled with unusually high levels of bad faith.[22][23]. Image:Wall_of_shame.jpg has now also been nominated for deletion on en.wp citing Commons policy, so there are good faith errors on all sides as we attempt to stabilise the situation post the en.wp arbcom outcome. See WP:IFD(Wall of shame.jpg). John Vandenberg (chat) 02:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • Sorry to be a hard case but the good faith I have for Matt Sanchez is zero. The project does not actually need these images, as far as I can see, and if Matt cannot avoid responding without being insulting or worse, we can't work with him, and we shouldn't have to try. No particular person is guaranteed an inexhaustible reservoir of good faith. That said if all of the issues are corrected by Matt to the absolute best of his ability, with no further outbursts, including his admitting where he erred, I'm not averse to starting over with a clean slate. My expectations of that happening are very low but non zero. ++Lar: t/c 02:51, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - delete per publication in magazine. Aleta 04:37, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - delete, I found this discussion by following Sanchez's own comments on wikipedia (just to snip meatpuppet accusations in the bud). Per Bluemarine (Sanchez)'s comment here "John Avarsis: This is a publicity shot I pulled from his website". At least Sanchez is being more forthcoming with where some of these photos came from. Benjiboi 18:59, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That comment on User:Bluemarine is in regards to Image:Aravosis-John.jpg, which has been deleted. I pointed this out at en:Talk:Matt Sanchez/Archive 15. John Vandenberg (chat) 02:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Per 17 USC § 204 (a), transfer of copyright is only effective in writing. Given the level of acrimony here, it would be best if Bluemarine could get Chris Kulawik to sign such a statement (see w:WP:COPYREQ#Declaration of consent for all enquiries), scan it and send it to OTRS. Sorry to make you jump through hoops, but the more eyeballs that are on this, the more important it is that we do things by the book. I'll be happy to restore it once that happens. howcheng {chat} 00:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The subject of the image, Jay Brannan, claims the photo copyright is owned by himself and does not give permission for its use.

Background (non-Commons information): He disputes the portrayal of him on en:Jay Brannan and would prefer the article be deleted also, however that will be handled on enwp.

I'm not personally comfortable with keeping the image if it is potentially work-for-hire. ~Kylu (u|t) 01:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete strongly per nomination, contents of OTRS ticket. Regardless of whether his article is deleted on enwp, I still feel this image should be deleted, between the claims of copyright, work-for-hire as well as the subject's known displeasure of it existing. Daniel (talk) 01:42, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • If I can offer a friendly suggestion, he should change the license of his image on Flickr to something like All Rights Reserved or something like that. I suggest it to prevent this from happening again. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 03:41, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The photograph was uploaded under CCA by Flickr user Jason Anfinsen. If Brannan contests the copyright he can and should file a claim to Yahoo! . Queerudite 04:14, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That is a good option. Kylu, I request for you to email me about this issue. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 08:42, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not in a situation where he has no ownership of the image, no, his wishes do not concern me. It's not his photo. He does not own the copyright to it. Therefore he has no claim to it nor a claim to decide Commons can't use it anymore. We're bowing down to someone who doesn't own the image. ALLSTAR echo 16:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep If the photograph is licensed as CCA on Flickr, it cannot be licensed differently on Wikimedia Commons. Unless the CCA is contested at Flickr, there is no reason for the photograph to be deleted here. Queerudite 16:10, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Okey how does the wording on that template mean we should delete?Geni 18:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
"The subject of the image, Jay Brannan, claims the photo copyright is owned by himself and does not give permission for its use. Background (non-Commons information): He disputes the portrayal of him on en:Jay Brannan and would prefer the article be deleted also, however that will be handled on enwp." Patstuart (talk) 13:01, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And if we bow down to every Tom, Dick and Harry that don't like the article about them on Wikipedia, we might as well throw Wikipedia it self out the window. ALLSTAR echo 00:38, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Strong delete. We have a credible (although not verifiable) assertion that this is copyrighted vs a credible (but not verifiable) assertion that is was validly compatible licenced via Flickr. Either the Flickr uploader or the complainant is wrong (lying or mistake) but we have no way of judging between competing claims. However, since we are a free content project we need to err on the side of caution. We err on the sided of not using something we're not completely sure we have a right to use. Thus delete. The fact the complainant is the subject, does not want it used, and possibly owns personality rights simply strengthens the case--Doc glasgow2 02:12, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
powershot G9 for a work for hire photo? Unlikely. A nice camera but not a DSLR and the difference is noticeable. The upload time to flickr doesn't really give it time to be stolen.Geni 18:45, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete First, assuming that Mr. Anfinsen owns the copyright, which is a big if since the only evidence is that he uploaded a digital photograph to Flickr, the page is still in violation of the license agreement. The license cited is a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. This license requires attribution to the author. At this time there is no such attribution.
Second, Mr. Brannan does have rights in this situation. California, where the Wikimedia Foundation is located, recognizes a common law right of privacy that includes protection against appropriation of someone’s name or likeness. Wendt v. Host Intern., Inc., 125 F.3d 806, 811 (1997). This includes both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Miller v. Glenn Miller Productions, Inc., 454 F.3d 975, 989 (2006).
I would recommend, given Mr. Brannan’s preference, and the moral and legal issues involved, that his image be removed. the preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.174.86.67 (talk • contribs)
The above is from a en:Wikipedia:Single-purpose account. ALLSTAR echo 04:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Which is why I did not edit the actual article. I am simply advocating a position that I would hope will convince those that actually know the policies for editing articles. the preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.174.86.67 (talk • contribs)
I think you are very confused. The image is attributed to Jason Anfinsen. Look at the image page again. It's attributed in the same way as virtually every other Flickr image in Commons. Second, you are completely mischaracterizing the nature of personality rights. It protects the individual from having their image used to endorse a commercial or political cause. Both of the case law you cite are about commercial uses. There is no law in California that prevents free content images from being used for educational purposes about the subject. If there were such a law, you would never see a celebrity's image on TV or in print journalism during a scandal. Queerudite 14:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And another comment: personality rights doesn't belong in Wikimedia Commons discussion anyway. It is merely a repository for free content images. Personality rights involves how the image is used, so if this photograph doesn't belong on Wikipedia that is a separate argument for the Wikipedia article (one which I have provided the counter-argument for above). If, on the other hand, Brannan were able to substantiate his claim of copyright, the photograph should be removed immediately without discussion. Though, as Geni and Allstar have pointed out, it seems unlikely Brannan actually holds the copyright. Queerudite 14:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
First, it is important to note that Mr. Brannan’s right in this case does not involve the photograph (a copyright) but the use of his image (a privacy right). Secondly, there is a legal distinction, albeit subtle, between the right to publicity, which is what you are discussing, and the right to privacy in regards to appropriation. While a right to publicity has to do with commercial interests and is often compared to the rights involved in a trademark, the right to privacy is focused on the effect on the individual involved and is not foreclosed by the use being noncommercial. Restatement 2d of Torts § 652C states: “One who appropriates to his own use or benefit the name or likeness of another is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy.” The Restatement continues that while invasion by advertisement is a common form, the rule is not restricted to commercial appropriation: “It applies also when the defendant makes use of the plaintiff's name or likeness for his own purposes and benefit, even though the use is not a commercial one, and even though the benefit sought to be obtained is not a pecuniary one.” But again, I would argue that regardless of the legal arguments, there is a strong moral argument. Wikipedia generally removes things when the subject wants them removed, which is probably why it has avoided litigation to this point, I don't understand why this image would be different. Jlsimmons 01:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
a)we do no such thing and b) the photo appears to have been taken at a public performance (The G9 is not a superzoom model) and apart from being downscaled appears not to have been edited in any way. The courts would be unlikely to consider use in a wikipedia article to be "appropriates to his own use or benefit the name or likeness of another" and the images is hardly unique in haveing personality rights issues that could impact third parties. From the POV of commons and the wikimedia projects there are no personality rights issues that could be a problem on project.Geni 01:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The issues here are many, but I think my closing comments will satisfy the concerns of the deleters:

  • Copyright in the photograph: I don't see any evidence that this was, in fact, a work-for-hire, which is the only way that Mr. Brannan would be able to claim a copyright over it. There's a couple of minor pieces of evidence against this, too. For one thing, there's the fact that it's still on Flickr, under the original license; if this was some kind of blatant copyright violation one would have thought that Flickr would have taken it down by now. Another is that professionals who are hired for this sort of thing would be unlikely to use a PowerShot G9 to take such a photograph. None of these would count for much in other circumstances, but in lieu of any positive evidence for this being a work-for-hire, they do count for something.
  • Personality rights: It seems that some commentators have misunderstood this as meaning "the subject of a photograph has an absolute right to control how it is used, regardless of context". This, however, is not the case; that's why we have a template warning people about personality rights issues, rather than speedying every photograph of an identifiable person. One might draw a loose analogy with the fact that we allow trademarked images here (so long as they are free of copyright); the fact that it could be used in a way which would violate the law, does not mean that we should not host them. Its current use on Wikipedia, for sure, does not infringe on the subject's personality rights. None of this is incompatible with free licensing. It merely forbids certain kinds of misrepresentation, just as trademark law does.
  • The subject doesn't like it: Legally, we don't have to care about whether Mr. Brannan approves of it. The photograph was taken at a public gathering, at which many people could reasonably be expected to be taking photographs; as such, we don't need his permission to distribute such an image. We only require permission from the subject for situations in which there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. I think it's a stretch to say that a concert is one of these situations.
  • Regardless of what the law says, the subject wants it deleted: This, in fact, is the strongest argument in favour of deletion. We might often consider deleting things as a courtesy to the subject. But in this case, I think doing so would set a bad precedent. This photograph is not, for example, of such poor quality that it sheds bad light upon the subject. What's more, it's useful to us, something that has to be taken into account all by itself. We can't set the precedent of deleting useful, reasonable-quality material that does not compromise the interests of the subject just because someone doesn't like it (that this is the subject of the photo, doesn't carry much weight in lieu of any legal issues).

So all things considered, I don't see a reason for deletion, and so this has been Kept. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 13:42, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Can`t be public domain. No relevant source. --Pokrajac 20:18, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is public domain because I downloaded it from "Blic" web site (indicated) on February 5 (the day of the arrest), when it was posted there and signed: "foto: MUP". A day or so later, the photo on the site was replaced with a copyrighted one of better quality, but since MUP (Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs) takes photos of all arrests, it is rational to believe that "foto: MUP" was true and therefore the photo is in PD.
I guess it's not hard to check this with "Blic" or even with MUP, as they both have web sites. --Matija 20:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. This is not a "law, decree, regulation or official material of a Republic of Serbia state body"; this tag, as I gather, is not an analog to PD-USGov whereby it covers all material ever made by the government of the country in question. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 16:09, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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This is a derivative of the copyrighted official CoA/Logo of Örebro Municipality. Lokal_Profil 02:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The official version can be seen here here. /Lokal_Profil 02:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted.Giggy 07:36, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I think it's a derivative work of Led Zeppelin's album cover, maybe they're not copyrightable though. Don't know. Peregrine Fisher (talk) 00:25, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]


was kept before. no new arguments --ALE! ¿…? 22:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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No file name given. This photo is the same as Image:Christine Nesbitt (08-12-2007) - 2.jpg --11 February 2008 User:McSmit


Deleted. You can use {{duplicate|Name of other file}} in these cases. -- Deadstar (msg) 09:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Source unknown. 11 February 2008 User:Createaccount

 Comment Fixed request for all three images. They seem to be photographs of a wall map or atlas. Requester is uploader of images, and he did give a source to start with (Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas, 5. Auflage (Edition) 1903/1893), so not sure if this means that source given is incorrect. -- Deadstar (msg) 09:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. I'll go out on a limb and say that he gave the incorrect source (etc.) in uploading. giggy (:O) 09:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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License is not valid, claim of GFDL can not be supported anymore, original picture in de: was deletet by uploader, see Talk of uploader and deletion log.--Mdangers 22:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Laut http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bilderwerkstatt/Archiv_1#Ernst_Gennat werden sie von der Polizei frei zur Verfügung gestellt und sollten als amtliche Werke gelten - damit ist die Lizenz falsch, es müßte wohl PD sein. --217.88.175.104 23:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes that's right, but please write English, so we all can undertstand you. No deletion because PD. --Koernerbroetchen 18:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


In speedy category for 7 days after this edit. abf /talk to me/ 12:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


deleted, There is no proper source and there is no permission available (from "Police Berlin"). --Polarlys 01:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC) --Polarlys 01:53, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Press license on Flickr. ALE! ¿…? 14:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 17:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Press license on Flickr. ALE! ¿…? 13:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 19:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The image use little logos. More generaly it the question of diagram with logo to identify company i ask. People are interested to upload own diagram like that on Commons. Can they do it without problem.

See also Image:UnternehmenDeutschland.jpg (same image)

A little note : we can see image with little logo on Commons, like Image:TVBoy.jpg, but i think its not the same problem.

Thank for your comment. --~ bayo or talk 18:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ma première idée reste que l'image est composée d'éléments libres créées par l'up-loadeur et des éléments non libres. Les éléments non libres sont petits par rapport au contenu libre mais cela rend-t-il tout le document libre ? Je ne le crois pas deplus où mettre la limite de proportion entre libre et non libre? 10%-90% 50%-50% c'est ingérable. --P@d@w@ne 19:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Il ne devrait avoir aucune images non libres, ceux-ci qualifient comme travail dérivé. Il devrait être 100% librement à être sur le Commons. Cumulus Clouds 21:24, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, selon le droit allemand cet image est libre mais pas selon les règles de commons. En cas de suppression, prière de l'uploader sur la de-wp. This image is free according to German law, but I think not according to commons standards. Please move it to German Wikipedia in case of deletion. --Gnom 18:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Logos are allowed: Image:Walmart exteriorcropped.jpg, Image:DaimlerChrysler wordmark.svg, Image:Allianz Globus.jpg, Image:Embracing texas-hood.jpg, Image:Siemens AG logo.svg, etc. This image can be kept without any problem.
The size does not matter. Just in case place the {{Trademark}} tag.-- Fernando Estel ☆ · 星 (Talk: here- es- en) 22:53, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not all logos are allowed, only those that are composed of simple text or very basic geometric figures (see template {{PD-ineligible}}. That said, althought the logos are very small, they are an important part of the image; my take is that the image is a derived work and cannot stay under these conditions. Either change the logos to some simple text or  Delete.--Patrícia msg 13:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted, per Patricia. Kameraad Pjotr 17:58, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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User:Talmoryair has taken a series of photos showing artworks by recent authors inside buildings. So I think FOP does not apply and that the photos are derivative works.

Some examples:

  1. Image:Gitlin Shelter.JPG
  2. Image:Several Things4.JPG
  3. Image:CRONOS.jpg
  4. and many others

Regards --ALE! ¿…? 08:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i think that there is a big difference between taking photo as a reproduction and taking pic as a document, witch is under Freedom of panorama. in all the places i took those pic it approved by the employs of this places. Talmoryair 11:24, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Freedom of panorama only applies in public places, it does not matter whether you had approval of the employees. FOP also only applies to works situated permanently in a public place, which cannot be said for exhibitions in galleries. To take an example, the copyright for Image:Gitlin_Shelter.JPG lies with Michael Gitlin, and it will do so for more than 70 years to come. --rimshottalk 13:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete All images showing recent works situated inside buildings. Images from Category:Tefen Sculpture Garden and similar should be kept for now. --rimshottalk 13:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Patrícia msg 13:14, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unconfirmed permission, only for wikipedia. GeorgHHtalk   21:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm agnostic about deleting here (they said GFDL, so that's good, but does the foundation really have the right to release the photo if the author is unknown?). However, this is PD in the US (1917 photo) so if it is deleted here it should be reuploaded and retained on en.wiki. Calliopejen 02:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If the author is truly unknown, and assuming the organization did some research to try to determine the author but failed, then {{Anonymous-EU}} may very well apply. Carl Lindberg 17:19, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. They've released it under GFDL and I believe they understand what this entails. Anonymous-EU can be added if you wish, in any case. —Giggy 07:40, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Even if it has got no proper source I belive it cat be deleted on the speedy way. abf /talk to me/ 15:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep I strongly support keeping this image since it is very likely to be in the public domain, and as for the source it can be revealed later. (my belief is that the image is a vectorization made by Aivazovsky that is based on the FOTW site - but that is only my gut feeling and not something to base anything about it). and as for finding the sourse, i think that the best thing to do is to ask Aivazovsky if he is the one who created the SVG file. Oren neu dag 23:33, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is not this like a logo of an organization? /Pieter Kuiper 08:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep - I hope this was some kind of a joke. I belive it cat be deleted on the speedy way - How about using English properly and tell us why? Chaldean 00:15, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I believe he meant to say, "Even though it has no proper source, I believe it can't be speedily deleted [so I have brought it to DR.]" Eleland 18:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep for all reasons stated above --Oren neu dag 15:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
BTW when will this debate is going to end? it's visible that this flag should remain, so why does it take that long to end the debate? the admins should close this debate ASAP. --Oren neu dag (talk) 15:33, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept.Giggy 13:37, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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loocks like an old newspaper scan, maybe old enough, maybe not. abf /talk to me/ 15:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Same with Image:Oscar quinones2.jpg. abf /talk to me/ 15:48, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Image:Oscar_quinones1.jpg looks like a publicity shot. El gran amor de Bécquer is a 1946 Argentinian film (IMDB). Image:Oscar quinones2.jpg is definitely not self-made either. -- Deadstar (msg) 10:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I received the following message on my talkpage, which might change things:
I would like to know about this request, because I have all those pictures that are from movies he made about 50 years ago. I am his daughter and own those pictures that are online. Is that forbbiden? I think not in Argentina. --mlqu 20:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure where that leaves us, as presumably she nor her father took the images, although he probably owns rights to the film alright. I will ask if perhaps Template:PD-AR-Movie or Template:PD-AR-Photo applies. -- Deadstar (msg) 08:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No progress? —Giggy 07:38, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. The photos are derivative works from an Argentinian movie. According to Template:PD-AR-Movie, this copyright has expired. Will retag the images. Patrícia msg 13:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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PD-AR-Movie can not be used because the director died not more than 50 years ago. In fact he died in 1988. ALE! ¿…? 22:55, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. According to the Spanish Wikipedia, Óscar Quiñones, whose daughter the uploader claims to be, participated in this film as an actor, not as the scriptwriter, producer or director. Thus, it seems unlikely that he ever owned the copyright to this image, such that his daughter could have inherited it. (Note that merely owning a copy of the image does not grant ownership of the copyright.) Meanwhile, the image is also clearly not {{PD-AR-Movie}}. Ilmari Karonen (talk) 17:46, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Wrong license, this image surely is eligible for copyright. GeorgHHtalk   20:10, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How can you say such a thing if you don't research to know if really is or not? All sciences has an insignia. Here in Brazil we made one for Tourism. This is a profession that more grows in my country, and we needed it. I myself am a Tourism student. If you research at google images "Turismologo" you're gonna see some websites that uses this insignia to illustrate Turismo (Tourism). This one here is an edited version. The real one you can find even here. Insígnia do Turismo.This version you request for deletion you may find it here Faculdade Vale do Ipojuca. As ineligible image, everyone can edit, and I can use all versions of Turismologo's insignia not mattering who did it.

Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 12:44, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mizunoryu, PD-ineligible só se aplica a designs muito, muito simples, como formas geométricas básicas e textos usando um tipo de letra comum. A utilização de logos sob licenças livres só é permitida se existir permissão expressa disso, pois logos desse tipo têm uma componente artística que se encontra sob copyright. Esta outra imagem também não pode estar marcada com PD-ineligible pela mesma razão. Patrícia msg 14:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Português: E por que as insígnias de outras faculdades científicas como Direito e Medicina podem estar aqui e a de Turismo não? Tem coisas aqui no Wikimedia que são muito contraditórias. E isso não é um logo. É uma insígnia, um símbolo que representa a ciência do Turismo.
English: Why do other scientific insignias like Law and Medicine can be upload and Tourism not? There are things here at Wikimedia that are too contraditory. This is not a logo. This is an insignia, a symbol that represents Tourism science.
Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 01:17, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
To clear things up, here is a website showing the insignias used in Brazil.IESAM. Wikimedia's administrators seem to care more on delete files than keep them, cause you guys like to delete them and put them for speedy deletion without knowing if there is really something wrong about them. When there's nothing, you guys look for or create something to delete them.Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 03:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  1. This is not Wikipedia.
  2. The fact that some image is used almost everywhere does not mean it is free of copyright protection. See e. g. en:International Symbol of Access.
  3. To be sure this image is public domain, we need to know who created it and why should it be in public domain. (Too simple to be copyrightable? Doubtful. Is it PD because it is a work by a government? Etc.)
  4. Did you create this specific file? Note that somebody tried to be creative with this image – see e.g. the lens reflex. Even if the original logo is public domain, this image might not be (I am not saying it isn’t, just that you cannot assume automatically that it is).
--Mormegil 10:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  1. I know this isn't Wikipedia. Commons is worse than it. I use more Wikipedia in portuguese that is my native language and Wiki-pt doesn't allow fair-use. So I presume I know very well what is Wikipedia or not.
  2. Is there any shield used at colleges that are not PD?
  3. How can you prove that this symbol Image:Estrella_de_Esculapio.png is PD?
  4. I didn't know somebody could change the owrk from another person and claim the rights for themselef.
  5. For the hundredth this is a shield created to illustrate the Tourism Couse as well as caduceus or any other symbol like that.

Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 12:49, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Well then don’t talk here about “Wikipedia administrators”.
  2. I don’t know what you are referring to with “shield used at colleges”. Could you be more specific?
  3. The Caduceus symbol is too old to be copyrighted. The specific image has been created by the uploader himself, and he does not assert copyright in that work, so I don’t see any problem with that image. (His work would probably not be copyrightable, anyway.)
  4. If you take a work from somebody else and modify it, i.e. create a new work based on that original (to do that, you need a license from the original author, or the original image must be in PD), you own the rights to the modifications, while the original author still owns the rights to the original image. A good example of such situation is a piece of literary work and its translation. Back to the image: even if the original symbol itself would be PD (e.g. as a work of a government agency), this image might be copyrighted by its creator (who “creatively” added the lens reflex), although I believe this addition is not copyrightable.
  5. For the hundredth: So what? What does “created to illustrate” mean? Who created the symbol? If the symbol is so universally used and well known, as you say, it shouldn’t be much of a problem to find out its origin.
--Mormegil 19:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  1. I didn't say anything about them.
  2. Well, how can I say, here in Brazil all college curses has a shield that representes the curse. Medicine uses this Image:Caduceus large.jpg, Nursery this Image:Enfermeiro enf.gif, Telecomunication Engineering Image:Simbolo engenharia.svg, Law Image:Scale of justice.png and so on. This one was made specifically for use in Brazil, where there is course of 3rd degree for Tourism. If you look in it there is a map of Brazil it. You can find this symbol in public domai at Google and in other sites of colleges. This symbol was made by Brazilian Ministry of Tourism and Brazilian Ministry of Education for the free use of teaching.
  3. I know the Caduceus are PD Old. But it was an example , since it used at college too.
  4. Yeah, yeah, I know everything you said. This golden symbol was made to value the course. It was taken from a college's web site as you can see here [54] and here [55].
  5. Well, I think I explained who created and for what purpose, you can find more symbols at public domain [56]. All websites are from college or enterprises of tourism. Summarizing, the symbol was made for brazilian students of tourism.
    Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 (talk) 14:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe I have missed something, but I am unable to see where you explained who created the image. You have repeatedly said what the images are, and who use them. Could you please repeat (or point me to the right place) who created the image? --Mormegil (talk) 11:13, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As matter of fact I'm starting to think the right license to this image would be Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Brazil License or this one {{PD-BrazilGov}}Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 (talk) 04:56, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

„I’m starting to think“ is a bit weak, especially if you name two completely different licenses; license is not something you decide, it is what the author decides. The image can be cc-by-2.5-br only if the copyright holder have (explicitly) released it under that exact license. I am starting to think the insignia has been created by ABBTUR, which, I believe (correct me if I’m wrong, please), is not a governmental agency. The logo might be usable free of cost for any use promoting turism (etc.), but not generally as a free work. In that case, it would be simply not enough for Commons. --Mormegil (talk) 11:13, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I told ya this was made by Brazilian Ministry of Tourism in partnership with Brazilian Ministry of Education. I'm also starting to think you think I'm dumb. Of course I know that! I'm thinking this just because I didn't knew about these licenses and I don't know wich of them is correctly, since they are from brazilian government and for free educational use. ABBTUR is an entity of class without profitable ends set up to represent the professional Graduates in Tourism also identified like Tourismologists. In that case "If" the symbol belonged to it would be free as well, cause it's an entity without profitable ends.
Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 (talk) 14:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Your implication “entity without profitable ends” ⇒ “free” is a completely mistaken one. For instance, Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit entity, still, everything it creates is protected by copyright (unless it is too simple to be copyrighted).
  2. As I have said, “for free educational use” is not enough for Commons (and in any case, “for free educational use” is far from being cc-by-2.5-br). We require “free for any use” (e.g. including commercial uses).
--Mormegil (talk) 20:45, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  1. No, you are mistaken. Everything here is under GNU Free Documentation License. The name is explicit FREE. There is no free entity that charge for something. This doesn't make sense.
  2. Actually this is enough for Commons, we have until a category for it Category:CC-BY-2.5-BR. I already made contact with a brazilian administrator to solve this. He'll know what to do here. Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 (talk) 14:32, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Sorry to disappoint you, but you are completely and utterly mistaken. There is a substantial distinction between free as in GNU Free and free as in “no charge for something”. And there is absolutely no guarantee that a non-profit entity would have to release everything even only gratis, not to mention libre. To disprove your specific statement about Wikimedia Foundation: see e.g. Template:Copyright by Wikimedia.
  2. CC-BY-2.5-BR would be enough for Commons, but “for free educational use” is not cc-by-2.5-br. That license requires any use, including e.g. commercial.
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Deleted. The image does contain original authorship, so {{PD-ineligible}} does not apply. No verifiable source provided for over four months to confirm any applicable reason for the image to be in the public domain or under a free license. If the uploader wishes to provide those things instead of engaging in ad hominem attacks, please do so at Commons:Undeletion requests and be sure to read Commons:Licensing first. LX (talk, contribs) 16:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unconfirmed permission, no source. GeorgHHtalk   21:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you mean by "unconfirmed permission" (how is pasting the permission into the text field here any different from pasting it in your email program and sending it on to OTRS?), but the source did not mention a free license in their response. Can someone whose Spanish is better than mine email the press office again and ask for a license confirmation? Calliopejen 02:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep It'd be better to have it in OTRS. But having it on the page does not make the picture merit deletion. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 06:45, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment With "Unconfirmed permission" I'll say that the permission is not verifiable. Also, in my eyes, the permission says nothing about GFDL. --GeorgHHtalk   07:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, the permission does not, but can someone just send a quick email to the address listed and ask for it? My Spanish is horrendous, but obviously this would be the better route than deletion when we have an obvious contact. Calliopejen 16:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. The image has effectively been tagged {{No permission since}} for over four months. If someone misses the image, get a proper permission per instructions at Commons:Email templates, send it in per instructions at Commons:OTRS and request undeletion. LX (talk, contribs) 16:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Press license on Flickr. ALE! ¿…? 14:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 17:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Press license on Flickr. ALE! ¿…? 13:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 19:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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  • User:ShinyFan has uploaded numerous candid pictures of women in comprimising or embarrassing dress malfunctions. I'm not sure what exactly these images intend to illustrate, but given the user's name and the title of the pictures, I don't actually think I want to know. Each of these represent personality and privacy rights violations since they are all fully identifiable. Thanks, Cumulus Clouds 17:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted, comments at this and this apply. Uploader blocked. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 19:41, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Derivative of copyrighted photos. Furthermore, the installation probably was not permanent, and thus "freedom of panorama" does not apply. Lupo 20:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose because the installation is permanent and even illuminated. Therefore the freedom of panorama does apply. -- aka 09:47, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted, while it may have been a permanent installation, FOP in Germany forbids derivative works, ergo it's not free enough for Commons. Also, you'd have a hard time calling those embedded photos "sculptures". Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 23:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyvio. Official German maps like this one are copyrighted, no sufficient permission to upload the map here is documented. Rosenzweig 19:03, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about the "Permission from the land surveying office BaWü given AZ: 2851.2-D/5897" (Erlaubnis vom Landesvermessungssamt BaWü erteilt - AZ: 2851.2-D/5897). Has anybody an idea where/if we could check this? --Ogre 09:42, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo. Ich habe die Erlaubnis vom Landesvermessungsamt BaWü erhalten:

"Sie erhalten hiermit auch das Nutzungsrecht zum Download der Karte. Diese dürfen aber nicht den Gesamtumfang von 1024 x 768 Pixel überschreiten. Bitte beachten Sie den Genehmigungsvermerk: Landesvermessungsamt Baden-Württemberg (www.lv-bw.de) vom 20.06.07 AZ: 2851.2-D/5897.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen

S. Weinmann Landesvermessungsamt Baden-Wrttemberg Referat 41 , Frau Weinmann Buechsenstrasse 54 , 70174 Stuttgart Postfach 10 29 62 , 70025 Stuttgart"

Diese Email habe ich an permission@wikimedia.org geschickt. Habe ich etwas falsch gemacht?

Gruß,

--Dominic Egger

Das reicht nicht. Es muss explizit erlaubt werden, die Karte unter die Lizenz XY zu stellen, und einiges mehr. Siehe Commons:Emailvorlagen#Einverständniserklärung für alle Anfragen. Eine solche Einverständniserklärung muss vom Rechteinhaber an besagte E-Mail-Adresse geschickt werden. Viele Grüße --Rosenzweig 16:14, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(In English: permission is not sufficiently explicit and must be sent by the owner of the rights; link to the German version of Commons:Email templates#Declaration of consent for all enquiries)


Deleted. There was a reply from the OTRS volunteer asking for more precise licensing info, which never came. When permission is received, the image can be undeleted. Patrícia msg 14:33, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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derivative 84.109.90.27 12:33, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Same as the last voting on the pic ==>>  Keep --Oren neu dag (talk) 14:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept See the previous DR.

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Can you delete Image:CtrlAltDel_Series_Logo.png too? MADe 19:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted, per above. --Martin H. (talk) 12:31, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No author provided. So why a (not documented) permission in the name of an unknown photographer? Polarlys 13:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Because, as the document officially belongs to the Maison de la Culture Yiddish/Bibliothèque Medem (in which I work, by the way), its president, Gilles Rozier, has entitled me to use the photography by means of Wikpedia-Commons. As he is absolutely delighted by my work - i wrote an article -, there is absolutely NO doubt about the righteousness of its legal use. So please withdraw the deletion request.--TheTexecuter 10:43, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So, if there is no doubt, please name the photographer and provide his written permission (Commons:OTRS). Being director of some institution doesn't give you the right to give away other people's work. I won't withdraw this request. --Polarlys 11:26, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. No permission. Patrícia msg 14:45, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The person shown in the photo is probably not the author of the photo. ALE! ¿…? 15:34, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The person on the photo is myself and I own the copyright to it, therefore I posted it. the preceding unsigned comment was added by Aliascane (talk • contribs)
The copyright is owned by the photographer. --ALE! ¿…? 16:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Where should I write the information regarding? the preceding unsigned comment was added by Aliascane (talk • contribs)

Kept. There are such things as tripods and timers. AGF. Patrícia msg 14:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The author of the book died in 1943, if the author of the book was also the designer of the book cover, then the cover is stil copyrighted. ALE! ¿…? 16:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Designer of the book cover was Max Wulff (which can be seen on the cover). A writer rarely designs his own book covers. sabisteb 17:29, 15 February 2008 (CET)
In what year did Max Wulff die? --ALE! ¿…? 19:31, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Good question. He was born in 1871. The Sammlung Manskopf claims he died in 1913, but that seems to be an error (or some other "Max Wulff"). According to [65], "After the end of WWI appeared a new [German] edition of [George Alfred Henty's] The Lion of St. Mark with new illustrations by Max Wulff", and [66] says he made the illustrations for a 1922 German edition of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Nesthäkchens Backfischzeit dates to 1919, and the last of the images shown here (Nesthäkchen und ihre Küken) appeared according to de:Else Ury in 1923 (with cover by Wulff). There's also a 1935 German edition of Marryat's Masterman Ready ("Sigismund Rüstig") with illustrations by Wulff.[67] Lupo 09:19, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I had a look in several biographical databases: According to Thieme-Becker (1947), Wulff was last mentioned 1913. A lot of books were published after 1913, but we don’t know if the illustrations are based on former works by Wulff. According to the German National Library, the last book with illustrations from Wulff was published in 1944. ([68]). Update: It's not the first edition, the first edition dated on 1922. --Polarlys 17:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Max im Seifenschaum (author: Otto Franz Heinrich, ill.: Max Wulff) was first published 1935 or 1936, and the front cover looks like it was made expressly for this book. So do the Nesthäkchen covers. I find it strange that the death date (even the year) of an apparently popular painter and illustrator of the early 20th century is just "unknown". The only explanation I have for this is that he died somewhen during WWII, and in the chaos his death went unnoticed. But 1913 looks clearly suspect. More likely sometime between 1936 and 1945, but that's just my personal impression. Lupo 17:24, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the cover, you are most certainly right, since there is an obvious relationship between content of the book and illustration. If there are any proposals for further research in access restricted databases, I'll do my very best. It is getting interesting ;-) --Polarlys 18:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I would have tried Thieme, too, but this looks as if we need more specialized encyclopedias. I'll try to check these days Ries, Hans: Illustration und Illustratoren des Kinder- und Jugendbuchs im deutschsprachigen Raum 1871 - 1914, Wenner-Verlag, Osnabrück 1992; ISBN 3-87898-329-8, and Baumgärtner, Alfred Clemens: Kinder- und Jugend-Literatur: ein Lexikon, Corian-Verlag, Meitingen 1995 (loose sheets, no ISBN, last installment available at my library from Oct 2007). Lupo 08:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Baumgärtner and Clemens is available at my local library, but unfortunately only for purposes of one lecturer (every shipment of loose sheets has its own ISBN by the way). Ries is currently not available („im Geschäftsgang“). Regarding Baumgärtner and Clemens I could write a mail if you are not successful. --Polarlys 19:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not necessary. I looked him up in Baumgärtner, and he's not even mentioned in there. Thieme doesn't have his death date. Saur, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Global Index, Vol 10; Munich & Leipzig, 2000; ISBN 3-598-23920-3 has him in the index (born December 15 1871, last mentioned 1913, but no death year), referenced to Thieme and Ries. Unfortunately, that encyclopedia has only been published up to the letter G so far... Osterwalder, Dictionnaire des illustrateurs 1890-1945, Editions Ides des Calendes, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; ISBN 2-8258-0039-2, has a page on him (most of which is taken up by an illustration of Wulff for the Decamerone), but they don't have any more info. Except that they mention that he illustrated Das goldene Buch der Märchen, Meidinger-Verlag, Berlin 1937, with Wanda Lehre. Ries is in our "Präsenzbestand" (cannot be checked out), but it's located at some institute at the university, not at the main library. I'll check it in the next days, but given the Saur reference, I suspect they also have only that "last mention 1913". The friendly person at the library reference desk really tried to help me when I asked, but was also at a loss where to look further. Lupo 21:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sigismund Rüstig was apparently already published "ca. 1910" with illustrations by Wulff. Search here for "sigismund rüstig wulff" (without the quotes)... a 1922 edition (also with ill. by Wulff) also exists, so it is entirely possible that the 1935 edition I had mentioned above re-used these earlier images. Das goldene Buch der Märchen in 1937 was a reprint ("16.-24. Tsd.") according to the DNB, and it might have re-used older illustrations by Wulff anyway. But Max im Seifenschaum and the Nesthäkchen covers are all long post-1913. Lupo 10:53, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And I have asked at the Kinder- und Jugendbuchabteilung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin whether they knew something more about this Max Wulff. Lupo 10:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
←Checked Ries: no new biographical data, but a list of books he illustrated until 1913 (not surprising, since Ries limits himself to pre-WWI data, he may have omitted later data), sourced to Thieme-Becker and Dressler. Dressler is Willy Oskar Dressler, Dresslers Kunsthandbuch, Band II: Bildende Kunst: das Buch der lebenden deutschen Künstler..., 1930. ("book of living German artists...") My library does not have this; Polarlys, could you check whether your library has it, and if so, take a look? Note that the 1930 Kunsthandbuch is a continuation of Dressler's pre-WWI Kunstjahrbuch, last published 1913. So if there are no post-1913 mentions for Wulff in the 1930 Dressler, I'd assume that Dressler got sloppy and just reprinted an old entry. But it might be worth to check it all the same. Lupo 14:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It’s available and I just ordered it. I don’t know how long it will take, since the library stores it at one of their numerous outposts. --Polarlys 19:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
According to Dresslers Kunsthandbuch, Band II: Bildende Kunst: das Buch der lebenden deutschen Künstler..., finished december 1929, published in 1930, Max Wulff was still alive at this time. Here the full text: Wulff, Max; M. [Maler] G. [Griffelkünstler] – Berlin-Lankwitz, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 124a, RvbK [Reichsverband bildender Künstler]. That’s all. --Polarlys 19:45, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, at least that is clearly a post-1913 mention. So we may assume that he still lived in 1929. But now it gets difficult. Are the raw data from the census of 1933 (or 1939) available somewhere? Alternatively, the parish registers of Berlin-Lankowitz might have his death year... Or he might have been Jewish, and would appear in some concentration camp lists? Or maybe old phonebooks of Berlin from that area might list him... Lupo 14:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I found a forum where an user provides information from Reichstelefonbuch 1942 (I will ask), but for me it is highly unlikely that an old man owned a telephone extension these days. Most telefons were used by restaurants, larger companies and public institutions like courts. As far as I know, some of these consesus data are available at familysearch.org. I looked for Max Wulff, born in 1871 and found MAXIMILIAN CARL WILHELM WULFF, born 15 DEC 1871, christening april 1872 in Berlin. So there is no direct jewish background (of course there were enough other reasons to get imprisoned but regarding Wulff I see no evidence). The Verein für Computergenealogie offers some databases and digitization projects (historical address books, parish registers, …) but I have seen nothing in our interest. --Polarlys 14:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
According to Berliner Adressbuch, he still lived (without phone;-)) in 1943 [69]--ONAR 00:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And still at the same address. Listed as "Wulff, Maximilian, Kunstmal[er] Lankwitz Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 124a." for those who have troubles accessing that site (my adblocker blocked it at first because it starts with "ad"...) Great for our attempts to find out more about him, but bad for this image. Lupo 00:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
(editing conflict) Thank you (not just for this information, also for a new bookmark)! :-) Considering this, his works are not in the public domain yet. Do you know when – if there was any – the following address book was published? --Polarlys 00:34, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The full title is Berliner Adressbuch - unter Benutzung amtlicher Quellen, published by the -Verlag. I suppose the Adressbuch has expired with its publisher at the end of World War II. --ONAR 07:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Amazing investigation, thanks! Deleting per Lupo, illustrator still alive in 1943. We can undelete this in a few years :). Patrícia msg 14:52, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Music of George Gershwin

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All are midi files or score excerpts from post-1922 George Gershwin compositions; no reason to believe that these pieces would have been allowed to fall into the public domain. --dave pape 19:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gershwin died in 1937, that's 71 years ago. Why wouldn't his work fall in the public domain this year? Doesn't the 70 years author death rule apply? Or was there renewal of copyright, and a 95 years rule after publication applies? Patrícia msg 15:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Depending on the answer to your question, we might actually be able to undelete the following files:
LX (talk, contribs) 16:32, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In the U.S., 70 years after death only applies to works since 1978; for works before that, the older rules, with later extensions, apply [70]. As long as these works were formally registered, and renewed at the appropriate time, they're still copyrighted. Gershwin's music is pretty big business; we shouldn't just assume they weren't registered and renewed unless someone does a thorough check of the records to prove otherwise. They're all listed in ASCAP's licensing database [71]. --dave pape (talk) 22:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, I think that Delete is the way to go, unfortunately. Patrícia msg 09:36, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And to further support that: here's the webpage where we can check whether a copyright was renewed or not. And this seems to be indeed the case. Patrícia msg 15:09, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That settles it, unfortunately. Deleting. LX (talk, contribs) 15:14, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. LX (talk, contribs) 15:14, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you! XcepticZP 17:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question-Nlebihan 14:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC) Hi, I don't understand why you deleted this picture. It's not a banner because the Cirpack trademark doesn't exist anymore. It was an historical picture of what cirpack was and the spirit of this start-up. I created this picture which is free for use now.[reply]

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Not a US work, so PD-US cannot apply 88.65.78.22 13:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and change the license tag: Find/create the tag that would best fit the image. - Vicer 02:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Easier said than done... it's an old Portuguese newspaper. Perhaps the same rationale as in Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Jacinta Francisco Lucia Fatima.jpg can be applied? Patrícia msg 20:46, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept, per Patricia. Kameraad Pjotr 18:53, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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derivative work Polarlys 17:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the coin itself not protected by copyright? --Polarlys 19:03, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know what Commons policy that would be. The Commons policy I know is to only accept images in the public domain and copyrighted images under a free license. Whether coins are in the public domain varies depending on jurisdiction. We're missing an entry for Austria on Commons:Currency. LX (talk, contribs) 20:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What I've meant to say is, deletion debates on the subject generally close as no consensus, default to keep. When I said "policy" I should have meant trend. {{PD-AustrianGov}} does seem to say official works are not eligible for copyright protection. The coin also appears to be derivative of public domain photos of the subject.  Keep -Nard 20:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Tag changed to {{PD-AustrianGov}} MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:28, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Media from Category:Panty Line and others

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All are privacy and personality rights to varying degrees, all media in Category:Panty line (with two exceptions) appears to be voyeuristic, clandestine photographs of unwilling participants. Other images from the Christopher Street Day parade also contains women in compromising or embarrassing situations, though I welcome community input on each of these. Other images from Category:Cameltoe are, again, compromising voyeuristic images of unsuspecting women. Last, an administrator should scrutinize the contributions of User:Vplgroup, as their uploads are suspect (name is acronym for Visible Panty Line). Thanks, Cumulus Clouds 20:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep split into smaller nominations if you wish to contest these files. Most of these have no identifiable subject and some have been on Commons since 2004. This mass nomination will never decide the issue. -Nard 21:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I can understand the motivations of someone who thinks that visible-panties or visible panty-line images add nothing of real value to Wikimedia Commons -- but on the other hand, it's simply nonsense to claim "privacy and personality rights concerns" over images whose subjects are simply not identifiable from the image (as was the case with the recently deleted Image:CSD 2006 Cologne VPL4.jpg). If you're going to request that unidentifiable images be deleted, please give specific valid reasons for doing so, instead of retreating into nebulous claimed "privacy and personality rights" issues, which in fact do not exist for a number of these images. AnonMoos 23:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep At least all images from CSD*.jpg (Christopher Street day) and VPL*.jpg. They are all participants of a public political demonstration for more /sexual/political rights of gays and lesbianbs. They are not voyeuristics and they illustrate the demonstration and/or clothing styles. The VPL*.jpg images are really old and no faces are seen. Raymond Disc. 07:29, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've removed about 10 of the Christopher Street Day parade pictures for that reason, the ones left are pretty clearly used to portray the subject in a way that they may not necessarily feel comfortable with, being that the images may be freely used and reproduced all over the world. The VPL series are pretty obvious personality rights violations, since the subject probably didn't volunteer to be part of a free exposition on panty lines. The age of the pictures is irrelevant since the subjects are very likely alive and would still be offended if they saw themselves in a picture being used to illustrate panty lines. Cumulus Clouds 19:24, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I do not agree with you. Especially the people at the parade of Christopher Street Day know very well that they are participants of a public demonstration. Up to 1 million people come to Cologne every year. They choose a very sexy clothing style incl. her panties with the intention to show it public. The images are not offending and can be used freely to illustrate this styling and the CSD.
The people on Image:Schwarze Glanzradlerhose.JPG, Image:59 903.jpg, Image:Cameltoe.JPG, Image:Ct waikiki.jpg, Image:Cleavage exp.jpg, Image:Cleavage.jpg, Image:String en position cambrée.jpg, Image:VPL Visible Panty Line 2.jpg, Image:VPL Visible Panty Line 4.jpg, Image:VPL Visible Panty Line 3.jpg, Image:VPL Visible Panty Line 1.jpg are not identifiable. Image:Panty Line 1.jpg could be cropped. Raymond Disc. 05:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with keeping the CSD ones. There's also a couple of others in there that shouldn't be deleted because they're obviously self-taken. But I still have issues with the VPL ones; even if there aren't any legal issues related to the identifiability of the person, do we really want a reputation for hosting lots of this sort of thing? Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 15:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Closed. Applying COM:PEOPLE to delete those where the subject is clearly identifiable, and the photo is either covert or embarrassingly-named on the grounds of unreasonable intrusion: as stated above, these subjects did not volunteer to be part of a free exposition on panty lines. Keeping the rest. One or two of the Cologne parade subjects are identifiable but are not problematic as the photos were taken in public, were not covert, and are neutrally-labelled. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:11, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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According to Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-TR-Gov, this tag is for 70 years old works. Pahlavi wasn't even born until 1960 so this seems incorrect. Also, this seems to be from en:Image:WithShahRezaPahlavi.jpg which has some strange copyright tagging so say the least. --Ricky81682 (talk) 06:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • The copyright can be terminated earlier for national heritage works. The tagging at en.wiki is a convenience for the local wiki, ie the image is both PD in Turkey and its use in the US is fair use, which is important because the United States has no "rule of the shorter term" for works no longer in copyright in their home country (plus the user seems a bit confused about GFDL). The question is, is this image in fact Turkish national heritage? -Nard 13:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. It is not 70 years old and no "National Heritage" information. Plus En.wp copy seems to be making a play for fair use.ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:37, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unlikely that the United States Congress are the copyrightowners of the Coat of arms of Micronesia. Lokal_Profil 23:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Micronesia was administered by the U.S. for a long time before becoming independent; maybe it was a reference to that. It is now claimed that this was self-drawn by a user on pl-wiki. This seems reasonable looking at the image, but can anyone see the original deleted image on pl-wiki to see what license or other info the original upload had? Carl Lindberg 15:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I asked Herr Kriss to have a look. Patrícia msg 09:52, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It had only license tag - {{PD-Polishsymbol}}. Of course it's not Polish gov symbol ;) Herr Kriss (talk) 19:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. There is no clear cut answer here. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:40, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Derivative work and FOP doesn't apply in France for that kind of things. TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 09:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Seems to be from the Asterix Park near Paris. No FOP. --Simonxag 18:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 19:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted, no FOP. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 07:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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no FOP in Belgium (I guess that the recently uploaded picture has nothing to do with the previously deleted one, but it has to be deleted, anyway) Teofilo (talk) 19:16, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted by D-Kuru: copyvio - derevative work

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Built less than 100 years old. Mexico grants FOP for Non-commercial purposes only. guerreritoboy 01:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Mexico's FOP is not non-commercial only. It cannot "affect normal commercialization of the work", which is quite different. If a photo is displayed in public, a photo of nothing but that photo is a problem (since the new photo can be used for the essentially same purpose as the original, which may affect the original's commercialization). Carl Lindberg 15:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. MichaelMaggs 09:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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we dont have Categories for Genus less than 10 species in Category:Bromeliaceae --BotBln 18:54, 17 February 2008 (UTC) Fixed request. -- Deadstar (msg) 09:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Who is the royal 'we' ? Looks like a bit of TOL enforcement of their way of doing things, this category was recently created and populated, now depopulated and nominated for deletion. The never ending edit war. --Tony Wills 10:41, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree completely with Tony Wills. "Less than 10 species", I don't see the logic of it. Eleven species is enough? Give me, please, one good reason! Maarten Sepp 08:01, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
After the installation of thousands of Genus categories by user:Quadell last year we should use it in the taxonomy navigations without limit. Orchi 18:18, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. MichaelMaggs 09:36, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Not sure this is in scope - for more (other language) examples of the same educational instruction, see (as yet non-existent) Category:Weeks -- Deadstar (msg) 12:08, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Could be useful for en:wikibooks:Wikijunior for example. LX (talk, contribs) 20:19, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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copvyio - all rights reserved by Asymmetric Publications. Creating a request anyway as these are stickfigures, and as such not sure if they can be copyrighted? On en: wiki, images are uploaded with a fair use rationale.

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Deleted. --Panther 12:45, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Suspicious EXIF data, also used in at least one of the already deleted proven copyvios from the same user (Image:Campillo de Ranas.jpg and Image:Pico Ocejon desde Usanos 2006-06-03.JPG). This request is a follow-up from this complaint. I'm not trusting any photo uploads from user Sonsaz (talk contribs). --Patrícia msg 16:09, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lupo 12:19, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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no evidence this was published (or taken) before 1923 140.247.243.153 20:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • There is a section at the T.E. Lawrence Studies site about the 1919 Harry Chase portraits and says that they "were taken in London in 1919 and used to illustrate the lecture and [Lowell] Thomas's subsequent books." It indicates that a number of them were used in Thomas' With Lawrence in Arabia which was published in 1924 in the US (Garden City Publishing, Garden City, New York) but doesn't say anything about the image in question[96] being included. So the photo was taken in 1919 by an American (possibly died c.1927) and possibly first used publicly between 1919 and 1924. There is an entry for With Lawrence in Arabia in the copyright renewal records (searched for "Lowell Thomas") which has "ODAT: 26Sep24" (original date of registration) and "DREG: 23Nov51" (Effective date of registration from application). What does the latter mean? Are photographs used in the book covered by the same copyright renewal? Still no clearer to me on whether it is public domain or not. Gsl 2.0 03:29, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Then to the best of our knowledge, this image was first published in 1924 in the United States and is therefore under copyright. At the present time I stand by my delete vote. A change to keep would require positive evidence of public domain status, not just speculative interpretations that the image might be free. Durova 03:44, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • I've got no argument with deleting this photo. Still speculating: from the telstudies.org thread mentioned above there is a post[97] that says "There are at least nineteen postwar Chase photos of Lawrence." and that "The first widespread print appearance of any of these postwar Lawrence photos was in Strand magazine of January 1920." so that would be a good avenue of enquiry. The post also says "Some of these [photos] remain unpublished." Presumably the particular Chase photos used in the Strand article would be PD. Some of Raymond Goslett's photos (eg., IWM Q59314A) might be usable instead seeing as he was a British staff officer so could possibly be {{PD-UKGov}}. Still speculating, of course. Gsl 2.0 04:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • In Britain the copyright on photos is 70 years. (It used to be 50 until a short while ago). I have just come across a reference to Chase, stating that he "died around 50 years before 1977," which makes his death in around 1927. [98] --79.68.186.171 15:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. No evidence at all has been quoted showing when this was first published, and there is no known basis for the tag which claims prior to 1923. For all we know, the first publication may have been on this page in which case UK Publication Right still covers the image for 25 years from publication (the site appears to be based in the UK, as fees are quoted in pounds sterling). The image on this page seems a more promising replacement as publication details are given and this is old enough to be PD in the UK. If the original image is of particular importance I suggest that somebody should contact the Society for TE Lawrence Studies who may well know the provenence of the image that appears on their website. MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]


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Wikipedia only permission. All rights reserved on Flickr, see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasenz/248213937/sizes/o/ ALE! ¿…? 10:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination --Ogre 11:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The photographer has clearly given his permission as stated below the picture. Taifarious1 06:21, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that he wrote "I would be glad to give my permissions for this photo to be a part of wikipedia article about Auckland". We need it to be usable outside it too. --Ogre 09:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Are Argentinian stamps under the GFDL terms? GeorgHHtalk   21:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. MichaelMaggs 09:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Outside commons scope; w:WP:SOAP applies here. Patstuart (talk) 06:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - You may not like the image, but that doesn't mean we should delete it. Nor should be delete it for expressing a point of view. What if someone wants an image to express that point of view on one of the projects? We are not an editorial team for everyone else. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:20, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Outside scope, not used anywhere Badseed talk 16:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Uploaded by checkuser confirmed sockpuppet (en:User:Hayastan) of indef banned User:Artaxiad VartanM 22:01, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:31, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Looks like an old map, but no author and date of publication is given. ALE! ¿…? 10:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. No author, date and permission.Trixt (talk) 00:50, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No indication that this (PD-AR-Photo) image was first published more than 25 years ago. ALE! ¿…? 08:16, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. {{PD-AR-Photo}} is clear: "date and source of any publication prior to 20 year old must be indicated so anyone can check it." No such source has been provided for more than four months. LX (talk, contribs) 20:37, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Author and exact date of photo not known. ALE! ¿…? 08:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Keep(if i can vote)I am the uploader of this photo, of the Castle of Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal.

I uploaded it in good faith that it is in PD because:

1ºThe source that is a blog authored by António Amaro das Neves(see bottom of the page of the blog), president of the Sociedade Martins Sarmento, one of the most important cultural institutions in Guimarães, Portugal and author of a Book about the births outside the wedlock in the north of the concelho of Guimarães. resume about the book

2º The author of the Blog doesnt mention the author, so it must be unkown to him.

3º The blog states that the Postcard is around 1910 and that the author (acording to my interpretation) is unkown.

4º In this link (pop up), from Casa de Sarmento, Institution in which Sociedade Martins Sarmento participates, where it says data(date in portuguese) it says c.1910, or in english around 1910, and it doesnt mention the author, so this postcard is in PD since around 1980.


What i state in this points is acording to the true, however i can prove it only with links in portuguese. Tm 09:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept, anonymous author, date of publication +70. Kameraad Pjotr 18:36, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright tag is definitivly wrongly used. But are Tonga stamps in the pD? ALE! ¿…? 09:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This also applies to: Image:Tonga 1998 50s.jpg --ALE! ¿…? 10:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Someone seems not to like me. I upload a picture; it is directly questioned. Someone else uploads a picture of the same type and same license; it has been left alone already for along time (see the others from Category:Stamps of Tonga. Tauʻolunga 23:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted (and all the others in the category), unfree for commercial use according to the copyright law[99]. Kameraad Pjotr 18:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Not free enough for Commons, see: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autorización_para_insertar_material_del_municipio_de_Guayaquil_con_Copyright ALE! ¿…? 10:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

mhhh... In the first email they agree to the use any material from their websites guayaquil.gov.ec/visitaguayaquil.com under the GFDL, mentioning them as the source. In the second email they put certain conditions which make them unusable here (correct use, no derivative works, no changing of logos, etc.). The third one is the email from the uploader to them. My guess is that they are talking about different sets of images? --Ogre 11:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They talk about the same images. Following the history of that page, they first produced an authorization too restrictive, and after being contacted again, they accepted the GFDL, provided that the source is mentioned (M.I. Municipalidad de Guayaquil) and they are notified. I am not sure what they mean with that (let they know of every use the pictures could have?). -- Fernando Estel ☆ · 星 (Talk: here- es- en) 12:38, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
yes, I get it now. The newest on top, it confused me :-) About being notified everytime the image is used, I don't think this goes against any policy, we just would have to put a small note in the image page. About it being sensible or not... --Ogre 16:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Seems to be OK. But wiki based permission is not OK - so I will tag this with {{Npd}} ShakataGaNai ^_^ 05:50, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The current permission is invalid: it is not a Brazilin civic symbol defined by law, it is the symbol of an organization. --Tonyjeff 18:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Outcome undecided. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 05:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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copyvio AVRS 19:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

19:51, 19 February 2008 PatríciaR (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "File:Rockgaucho1.jpg" ‎ (Copyright violation: TV screenshot) 

Deleted. Martin H. (talk) 08:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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copyvio AVRS 19:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

19:51, 19 February 2008 PatríciaR (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "File:Rockgaucho1.jpg" ‎ (Copyright violation: TV screenshot) 

Deleted. Martin H. (talk) 08:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry. I'm not here enough to remember all the templates. That's something that should be in the bot. Kwamikagami 07:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Nominated for speedy deletion as a copyright violation by Electron with the following reason: "The main theme of photo is copyrighted logo. Picture used only on nationals wikis to ilustrate the logo of producent..., e.g. see here."

As the uploader, I disagree, so I'm converting it to a regular deletion discussion. Sweden has freedom of panorama and the sign is permanently mounted on top of a building in Gothenburg, Sweden. The logotype is text in a simple font and probably qualifies for {{PD-textlogo}}. I don't know if the same logotype has been used since the company was founded in 1841, but if it is, it should be {{PD-old}} as well. LX (talk, contribs) 15:26, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete You haven't proveded any evidence (e.g an allowence from the producent) that you have rights to use the logo. The "free panorama law" dosn't allow to use photos with copyrighted logos. It can be small and only in the background. There is in the front and is the main theme and only purpose of this photo is to show this logo. The main use of this photos on wiki is to show haw Hasselblad logo looks like, too. Tranversing you own words: "Please confirm your assumptions with Hasselblad. (...) it is unlikely that they would condone violating (...) and approve a licence (...) without paying royalties. (...) As the uploader, it is your responsibility to provide verifiable evidence that the image is under a free licence. The evidence you have provided so far (...) has failed to convince (...) me (...)" that you have that rigts. Regards Electron 10:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
(For the benefit of other readers, the discussion Electron quotes out of context is Commons:Undeletion_requests/Current_requests#Image:R2-KT_fan.jpg, where a Flickr uploader had claimed that Star Wars characters were {{cc-by}} licensed.)
There is no need to request permission from the copyright holder for works in the public domain, because if there is no copyright, there is no copyright holder. As I've already explained, the logotype is {{PD-textlogo}} and probably {{PD-old}} and is displayed such that freedom of panorama applies.
As for freedom of panorama, I think you're confusing that concept with de minimis. Lag (1960:729) om upphovsrätt states that "konstverk får avbildas om de stadigvarande är placerade på eller vid allmän plats utomhus" (works may be depicted if they are permanently placed in or by a public place outdoors, chapter 2, §24). LX (talk, contribs) 12:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If I understend you properly it is alow there in Sweden to take a photo of e.g. a big logo of Sony which rooms for e.g 1/3 part of this photo (because e.g. it is permamently placed on a roof of a building) and after that pleced it in article about Sony and write under the photo: "It is logo of Sony"... Strange... I don't think it is true (of corse without Sony permision). I my opinion you can publish such photo only if the logo is taken accidentally, is small and is not the main theme of this photograth. We have similar law here in my country (Poland) and because of that we have no photos with copyrighted logos on Polish wiki... That paragraph of Sweden law is about art works not about logos of company. Of corse you can write the word "Sony" in a stright letter and it is OK. But you haven't provided any evidence that the shape of letters and sign in all on the photo are not reserved by Hasselblad. Regards Electron 14:36, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Again, you're confusing de minimis and freedom of panorama. The copyright law applies to all copyrightable works and does not make a distinction between works of art and other creative works. But then, I don't believe the logotype is copyrightable anyway.
The test usually applied by Swedish courts to determine if a work meets the threshold of originality required for protection is whether it is likely that someone else might create a similar work independently. It doesn't seem very unlikely at all that someone would design a rather standard sans serif typeface where the distinguishing feature is that glyphs with strokes along the midline (A, B, E, F, H, R) have those strokes extended across the left stem or leg. LX (talk, contribs) 21:12, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Swedish copyright law, article 24: "Buildings may be reproduced in pictorial form". The copyright law is available in English here (PDF). Thuresson 21:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
BTW: But it is not a builing on the photo but an instalation.
We can of corse discuse if it is under or beyound "minimis". My point of view is produced above... Electron 09:16, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That it's not de minimis (by my own standards anyway) is irrelevant. Buildings (and it is a permanent part of a building; the Hasselblad HQ) and other works permanently displayed in a public place are free to depict in full. De minimis is only relevant to works that are not permanently installed (such as an advertising poster) or not located in a public place (such as magazines in a home) or in jurisdictions that don't have proper freedom of panorama. LX (talk, contribs) 12:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per LX. And it's simple text. PD-ineligible by itself. - Rocket000 06:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have made an afford and found Hasselblad www site: www.hasselblad.se. The logo of the company (on the top of the main page) is there very similar (the same shapes of letters and look in general and it can't be an accedent) to that shown on the photo. Of corse that letters are rather simple (I suppose because of this that in general Nordic people like rather a simlicity) but still it is easy recognizable. There is also the statemant: "© Copyright. All images on this site and their copyrights owned by the photographers. Images are not to be reprinted or reused without the express permission of the photographer who took them". So the logo is obviously copyrighted. BTW: I understand that the author have a sentiment to this photograph. It is very good and I like it very much and can only say some words with an congratulation. But it is not the case. The case is the we can't keep photos that brakes the copyright law (without a company permition). Regards ;) Electron 09:16, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I don't. It's a rather shoddy shot from afar in low light and with a flimsy tripod, and the result is blurry and doesn't really show the building itself. (I'd spent too much time setting up another shot and the light was fading fast.) I'll probably have another stab at it next time I'm in Gothenburg (which I don't have planned any time soon). I'm more concerned with your attempts to invalidate the principles of freedom of panorama and threshold of originality. LX (talk, contribs) 12:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Still, I like the photo :). I say ones more: In my opinion the main purpose to take this photo was no the beaty of free panorama but to show a producent logo. The real problem is: If the administrator of commons is able to say for himselfe: "The hard law but the law. The law is for everybody, not only for others but for me too..." Regards :) Electron 11:02, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
As I stated, the general principles are my main concern, and freedom of panorama does indeed apply to photos taken in Sweden regardless of whether it was taken by an administrator, other user or anyone else. It allows photos taken where the main purpose is to illustrate a copyrighted work permanently displayed in a public place. The inclusion of the works do not need to be de minimis, secondary or incidental. I really don't see what's so difficult to grasp about this. LX (talk, contribs) 12:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OK. If so that I have a good idea: Usually we have a problem to show logos of producents and company without braking copyrights. If you have there in Sweden such law it is a very good posibility to take as meny photos with permamently installed logos as you can make and place it on commons. Of course it would be very nice when logos be as much large as it is possible - the best will be a situation when a logos rooms all size of a photo... So if you have time and possibility you can help wikipedia, please. Regards :) Electron 13:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Even if we grant the premise that a neon sign on a building can be called a work of art, FOP in Sweden is fairly liberal on this count. There's no problem with this image at all. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 14:40, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Absurd misinformation from bot. This is a transwiki of an image I uploaded years ago to en:Wikipedia. I have cleaned up many such mangled image descriptions, but fear I cannot catch them all. I strongly deny the claim that I am the author of this photograph taken long before I was born. The 2002 date is most certainly not the date of the image (and if it were, it would not be PD-US as it is tagged). Images with obviously false information about source, description, author, etc should not be allowed, whether uploaded by individual or bot. Allowing such offensive nonsense to remain would be a smear against any attempt to make Wikimedia Commons a source where image descriptions can be trusted. --Infrogmation 03:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Hmm.. do you know the correct info since you uploaded it originally? Maybe a source? I think the date (correct or not) refers to the photograph, not the original stereopticon card photo (whatever that is) - the photograph of the photograph, which may or may not be {{PD-art}}. - Rocket000 06:05, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I believe I had such information, but as en:User:Maxim has deleted the previous version on en:Wikipedia, it is not accessible. I have asked Maxim to restore the version on en; or perhaps you could ask Maxim about it yourself. -- Infrogmation 00:30, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment That bot is monstrously retarded in the way it handles source information and should be shot into the sun, or at least blocked until it gets its act together. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 06:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Or at very least, all such mechanical transfers should have a notice that every single field in the information template may be wildly mistaken and should not be believed nor the image used until a human has verified and made any needed repairs. -- Infrogmation 00:30, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:32, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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There is no proof that Adolfo Durán, the original author, has accepted GFDL. --Ecelan 21:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This "flag" was proposed by Adolfo Durán in 1985 as a symbol for en:La Franja. The proposal was not accepted and the symbol remains, as far as I know, the design of a private person with the usual copyright. See Catalan article --Ecelan 16:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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"Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819 – 1904)". No source at english wiki, no information about author or date of creation/publishing. GeorgHHtalk   22:40, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Author must be dead, and if not the scanner is partly an author, this should not be a problem. Jon Torger (talk 14:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Deleted. No source => no proove of PD. Cecil (talk) 16:57, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Since when is the Berne Convention itself a reason for an image to fall into the public domain? -Nard 11:09, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This may be PD in Cuba, see my newly-created {{PD-Cuba}} (and comment if I've made the template wrong!). Calliopejen 16:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can you speak Spanish? The convention decided that an image is pd 25 years after it is first releasedthe preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.81.100.10 (talk • contribs)

  • I am fluent in Spanish, thanks. International conventions are NEVER, by themselves, a reason for anything without an implementing national legislation or some other enforcement mechanism. -Nard 07:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. --O (висчвын) 22:16, 23 July 2008 (GMT)

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wrongly kept at previous deletion nomination. this is clearly a copyrightable artwork. its having been dismantled also does not change that. 63.251.53.131 17:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment Do I understand correctly that this was created in Cambodia during the Pol Pot regime? If so, do we have any information on relevent copyright laws for that time and place? Commons:Licensing seems not to have anything on Cambodia. -- Infrogmation 18:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't know when it was made. In the last deletion discussion someone said it had been dismantled, but I'm not sure if that is correct. It was on display in the Tuol Sleng museum when I visited last June/July. I would guess that it was made after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, based on its apparent anti-Khmer Rouge message. 63.251.53.131 22:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • And I just made Template:PD-Cambodia. The current law at least protects works until 50 years after the author's death. 63.251.53.131 22:11, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • More info from [104]: Skull map was made in 1979. It was disassembled in 2002, but there is a large photographic reproduction of it that remains in the museum (must be what I'm remembering). 63.251.53.131 22:13, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
          • Much more research: The 2003 copyright law of Cambodia is ambiguous as to whether it is retroactive, and I could not find any commentary one way or the other. I would presume that it is retroactive because the statutory language is broad, and to be on the safe side. This image, however, should be PD in the US, so moving it to en.wiki would be a good solution. The 2003 copyright law was Cambodia's first. (See this book for a statement that Cambodia did not have a copyright law as of 1997; other places online say that the 2003 one was the first.) Because this image was in the public domain in Cambodia as of January 1, 1996, and because it was not marked with a copyright notice, it is in the public domain in the United States.[105] 63.251.53.131 22:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept as 63.251.53.131. Yann (talk) 16:41, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Remove: I, as the creator of this file thinks it is an unneeded and unused file, and since there are other better & versions of this file (for example Bandera de Andalucía.svg) than this file is obsolete and therefore should be deleted. Oren neu dag 10:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It's in use on several projects, so evidently some people disagree about unneeded... Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 05:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
thanks for the vote of confidence, but in comparison to Bandera de Andalucía.svg i think my image is unneeded. Oren neu dag 08:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's for the projects to decide. I see different images, and even if it weren't in use I'd still suggest keeping it for that reason. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 09:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Either because "it's used" or because "superseded images are not deleted". Your pick. - Rocket000 03:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept, per Rocket000. Arria Belli | parlami 14:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Arnold Durig exhibition

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Images of an exhibition, very likely not created by uploader. You can view all images nominated in Category:Arnold Durig:

Image:2008.02.12.A.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.B.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.C.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.D.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.E.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.F.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.G.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.H.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.J.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG
Image:2008.02.12.K.ArnoldDurigAusstellungSchruns.JPG

-- Deadstar (msg) 10:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC) Delete all - copyrighted images. Calliopejen 16:16, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Arria Belli | parlami 18:29, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Extracted from the third album's graphic art - Uploader has no rights to release this. -- Deadstar (msg) 11:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Arria Belli | parlami 18:34, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=Shani870127

The images of this user was used for en:Wong_Yee_Leng, this article was speedy deleted, because it was like a personal diary. The images are also out of COM:SCOPE. So this images here can also be deleted. --Kolossos 19:24, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Arria Belli | parlami 14:14, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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All images from User:EUA

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Deleted. Arria Belli | parlami 14:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Suspicious EXIF data, also used in at least one of the already deleted proven copyvios from the same user (Image:Campillo de Ranas.jpg and Image:Pico Ocejon desde Usanos 2006-06-03.JPG). This request is a follow-up from this complaint. I'm not trusting any photo uploads from user Sonsaz (talk contribs). --Patrícia msg 16:09, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lupo 12:19, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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i don't see any CC indication on the source page (only a copyright notice) and the uploader does not appear to be the photographer Calliopejen 23:40, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. MichaelMaggs 09:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No evidence of CC-BY-SA; derivative work copied from a textbook 213.192.74.14 20:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Source seems to allow free reuse with attribution; retag as attribution required and keep -- Infrogmation 20:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. OECD doesn't allow free use and reproduction: The OECD is pleased to allow reproducing and copying of OECD material in journals, documents, books or electronic media, for personal, non-commercial, commercial, or for classroom use... free of charge and without written permission up to the following limits:...a. for any extract which does not exceed 400 words or for a maximum of 2 tables or graphs; [108] Badseed talk 16:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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speedying as nsd is wrong, imho. it needs discussion. abf /talk to me/ 12:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Same with Image:Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler.jpg and Image:Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler portrait.jpg. abf /talk to me/ 13:53, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Both were tagged by me as "no source" since they had no source at that time. Kubin still has no source:  Delete unless one is provided. For Mittag-Leffler, 84.185.51.107 has meanwhile provided a source as Acta Mathematica, vol. 50, which would be 1927 (his obituary?). "Cover of one of his papers" is not a source.  Keep Mittag-Leffler for the time being, but it'd be great if someone could find a pre-1923 publication of this photo. Lupo 21:10, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted, but with Image:Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler.jpg kept. --O (висчвын) 22:30, 23 July 2008 (GMT)

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Without author, PD-old is not assured.Code·is·poetry 18:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Keep User's user name indicates they are familial heir. The person is asserting that to the best of their knowledge their ancestor is dead. I'm willing to take that on good faith. -Nard 04:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    The uploader scanned the image from a book, I doubt that he has made some research. Moreover, I don’t understand why it is important if the ancestor is dead. Code·is·poetry 10:26, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Anonymous is 120 years. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 05:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image of a sign that is most likely not free Samuell 23:44, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Doesn't meet China FOP & almost in the category of faithful reproduction anyways. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 05:59, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Come on, one you did not give me sufficent time to discuss, two it is not a copywrited work, three it was taken public property so it was well within my rights to take such a photo.

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Conflicting licenses. I doubt the FOP part, because it is not very likely that the text was on something permanently installed in a public place. I don't think it's ineligible because the (handwritten) text as well as the background show original authorship. rimshottalk 11:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Sorry for renominating so quickly, but I think that the original concern (not PD-ineligible) still applies. How can we be sure that FOP applies? It's not like the image being somewhat ineligible and somewhat FOP makes it completely free. --rimshottalk 11:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep ineligible. Code·is·poetry 12:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Any reasoning? It's neither text in a general typeface nor simple geometric shapes. It's not plain handwriting either. --rimshottalk 12:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. FOP does not apply to 2D artwork such as this, even if it were to have been photographed in a public place. Shows sufficient creativity for copyright. MichaelMaggs 06:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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{{subst:All images ulpoaded by Picturit}}

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The reason these should all be deleted is : Désaccord sur la présence exigée depuis toujours par l'auteur de sa signature sous les images reproduites.
liens relatant le désaccord sur le bistrot de Commons Commons:Bistro#Mentions de l.27auteur : abusif .3F, sur les pages de l'auteur dans Commons, ici, [112] et sur les pages de l'auteur sur wikipedia, ici [113].. Picturit 16:58, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Maybe a few words in English please? What's the problem with those? --Herbert Ortner 19:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, excuse me. My english is very bad... I'm the author of this pictures, each time I have ulpoaded one of them, I have writed in the description and in the licence block that I want and ask the users to write under each use of the pictures(under the description) , my signature.. as you can see easely if you open one picture page. I's very important for me, give the pictures for free yes, but I want to see the signatures every time in all pages using this pictures. Until the last week, no problem, each picture in wikipedia pages have the signature writed, but this week, 2 or 3 WP members have decided to delete it. After some discuss (in french, sorry, but you can read them following the links before) we can't find any agreemement, often some others members are agree with me.. the only way for me is to delete my pictures from Commons..
Realy , my english is bad, you can correct it :o) .... thanks. Picturit 20:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment I should point out that these pictures are used in the way that the author requests on other Wikimedia projects. ([114], [115], [116], [117]) I believe deleting the pictures because other users have chosen to ignore this is not a good thing. I cannot read French so I do not know what the arguement is on the French Wikipedia, but if this practice is allowed, what is the rationale that some editors are using for not allowing the signature on the French Wikipedia? If the French Wikipedians want photos without signatures, there are some alternatives on Commons that work just as well on the articles in which Picturit's photos are used. The359 11:33, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

up please.. :o) the preceding unsigned comment was added by Picturit (talk • contribs)

 Comment I don't quite understand this deletion request. Picturit requests to be credited. Both the English version of his request (e.g. here) and also the French version at User:Picturit/Credits-fr give examples of how to credit him. He is credited in this way in the normal place where we always credit photographers: on the image description pages.
I know this is a contentious issue (where to credit photographers). Personally, I think if a photographer insists he be credited in article space, the photos should not be used. Delete Lupo 14:48, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for your message. Picturit 16:56, 27 February 2008 (UTC) a little UP ? thnks. Picturit 22:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you, but what can I do now ? Picturit 17:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted per Lupo. Specifying how credit is given is an unacceptable infringement on the four freedoms. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Error in name -- 21 February 2008 User:GarciaGerry

Delete Correctly named image at Image:Phenolphthalein3D.png. -- Deadstar (msg) 09:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I put the image in deletion because there was an error in the file name. You can delete the image. I uploaded a new one correctly named. --GarciaGerry 14:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please use {{bad name|new name.jpg}}. --ALE! ¿…? 15:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

deleted --ALE! ¿…? 15:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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This user use the false license {PD-Jordan} for images which are definetly not 50 years old or taken before 1979. The user write no discription, no source, no author. The image quality is so high that I believe we have it to do with copyright violation. --Kolossos 13:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Arria Belli | parlami 19:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User blocked indefinitely. Arria Belli | parlami 19:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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(source and author http://www.freeones.com/ does not own the copyright, which is not GFDL anyway) moyogo 09:25, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]


deleted --ALE! ¿…? 10:57, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]


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Site does not own files it claims are cc-by-sa 2.5. Copyfraud. -Nard 18:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 22:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Permission of the author and of the persons seen here required Niteshift 07:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete from http://www.usedom-handball.de/index.php?article_id=21 there is no permisson under GFDL. --Vriullop 13:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. I cannot see any licence at the source. MichaelMaggs 06:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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unfree product --22 February 2008 User:Samuell

Pretty much all modern Engrish utterances are copyrighted by default...is this much different than taking a picture of a sign with Engrish on it? -- Beland 12:04, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. MichaelMaggs 09:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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This photo is copied from Benoit's Assembly site, which is not the US government. The work is copyright protected. This picture is an older picture that has been removed from his official website at http://republican.assembly.ca.gov/members/a64/index.aspx?page=home. But, it is still copyright infringement.


Deleted. Copyvio either ways, no pd-federal government Badseed talk 16:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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unapprpriate, doesnt serve any purpose other than self display 77.180.79.12 12:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep May find a use. I don't think getting rid of images because they are "unapprpriate" or offensive is a good idea. --Simonxag 19:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Totally agree that "unapprpriate" or even "inappropriate" is a terrible reason to delete, but I really can't see any potential use here. Maybe, who knows, right? - Rocket000 10:06, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Commons is not censored. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:32, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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it has above note tony esopi 20:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:34, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Pretty much an exact replica of the band's logo. Either not self made, or a derivative...either way we can't keep it. giggy (:O) 23:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment {{PD-textlogo}} or not? Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 05:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I would say it's borderline. But if it is, let's get the real logo. Delete this either way. - Rocket000 17:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that would qualify for PD-textlogo, personally. Plus the bit in the middle...so yeah, I'm with Rocket. giggy (:O) 23:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It have to be deleted, it's just a copy of a copyright logo. Bertrouf 06:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. {{pd-textlogo}} doesn't apply; this is copyrighted. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:34, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Derivative work of a not permanently installed sculpture. No FOP applicable. ALE! ¿…? 15:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The license is describe on the web site http://photos-libres.fr under licence CC-BY-SA : copyleft if the author is quoted. That not permanently installed scultpure has been shown during a public event, the web site photos-libres.fr think it is free. Don't we ? Are they wrong ? bertrouf
Are they wrong?: I am not sure that's why I nominated the picture. --ALE! ¿…? 16:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. —Angr 18:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image has 5 contradictory license tags. -Nard 19:35, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Something went wrong there. Looks like the uplader just copied a talk page message with proposed licenses. We'll have to wait for the uploader to choose one. It looks as if PD is the intended license, though. --rimshottalk 14:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep, I've just discovered the original image, which is licensed as PD (with author Richardfarbi). I don't know what the uploader intended with all those licenses, but the PD tag on the original image should be enough to make it PD here as well. --rimshottalk 14:31, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept and correct license added. —Angr 19:00, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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no indication this is pre-1923 Patstuart (talk) 20:44, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Insufficient source information (even at en-wiki, where it was originally uploaded) to verify the PD claim. —Angr 19:09, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No indication this is pre-1923 Patstuart (talk) 20:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. —Angr 19:15, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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no indication this is pre-1923 Patstuart (talk) 20:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. —Angr 19:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Outside project scope, bogus license. -Nard 19:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Out of scope, not used.Ahonc (talk) 09:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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licencing information incomplete and possibly spurious. --meco 23:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment We have permission (ID 2007032510013279) to all photos from skijumping.pl made by Tadeusz Mieczyński or Anna Szczepankiewicz. Anyways i can't find that photo on the site (i tried by Google Images), so i can't say to whom it's credited. Herr Kriss 02:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I know, that all pics fromt that site have permission and that it is OK to have them. But they all lack the OTRS template in the description. I think this should be included. --Jeses 22:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Source was too vague. I couldn't find image anywhere on site. We may have OTRS but we had no proof that image came from where it was claimed. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Outside project scope. -Nard 19:12, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Out of scope. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Outside project scope. -Nard 19:14, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Out of scope. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Outside project scope. -Nard 19:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Out of Scope ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Per the same argument as in Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Donaldduck-thespiritof43-2.jpg, I don't think any of the following images are actually in the public domain. While the copyrights on these movies may have expired, the copyright on the main characters certainly hasn't. Lupo 19:37, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Relisting for further discussion. Need a lot more input on this. Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 02:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete After reading the original discussion, it seems that they'll have to go :-( --Simonxag 00:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep Sorry, the argument doesn't make sense. If the entire cartoon is in public domain, then the individual frames are too. 192.208.44.100 03:12, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree it's a bit schizophrenic. With normal films I guess you'd be right, but with cartoons, I think you also have to consider the copyright on the character itself. I don't think one can take stills and claim they were PD—there's a whole bunch of things one cannot do with them, but that one could do with truly PD works. Imagine using Bugs Bunny (for instance, from Image:Falling hare bugs.jpg) in an advertisement without having gotten a license from Warner Bros.... To me, taking a still and publishing that transfers the image to a new medium (still photography instead of movie), and I think the quote given at Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Donaldduck-thespiritof43-2.jpg shows that this is problematic. I think we should have very clear evidence that the characters themselves are out of copyright, too, if we want to claim these images were PD. Lupo 08:23, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • So it really comes down to whether the character "likeness" can be used in non-commercial ways or not, i'm sure there's a clear definition of it somewhere, we shouldn't be guessing here. --66.158.232.118 05:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep "[Personality rights are] the right[s] to charge for (or bar entirely) the commercial exploitation of name, likeness, voice or "personality."" (see Personality Rights) Using these images in a non-commercial manner is 100% legal. --66.158.232.118 19:02, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Since this images are useful for the articles.the preceding unsigned comment was added by David Pro (talk • contribs)
    That is not a useful argument in a deletion discussion. Most of the images on the front page of latimes.com would be useful for Wikipedia or Wikinews articles, but for some reason, we not upload them to the Wikimedia Commons. --Kjetil r 10:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Every person, every logo, every caracters have rights. You can't use my photo for comercial porpuses, you can't use a photo of an American Airlines jet for comercial porpouses. But the images are still in public domain. If the movies are in public domain, his parts are too. Rossicev 14:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It seems it was a mistake to give an example that involved commercial usage. That was just an example. The point is that the character is still copyrighted. This means you also cannot freely do a derivative work of these stills. Consider (again, as an example) creating a derivative work of Image:Falling hare bugs.jpg by cutting out Bugs from the image. As a derivative of a copyrighted character, this cut-out would not be free! Publishing it would be subject to the consent of the copyright owner on Bugs Bunny, i.e., of Warner Bros. Sorry guys, but these are just not free unless the character copyright also has expired. It's similar to the situation with music: a particular recording may have entered the public domain, and you can thus play it freely anywhere without paying royalties. But unless the underlying score is also PD, you'll need a license for a performance of the musical work. (Note that I said "similar". It's an analogy. I am well aware of the differences between movies and audio recordings. I'm just trying to explain where the problem is.) Lupo 15:13, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Honestly, I don't know, but this isn't something that should be decided though consensus. Either it's legally fine to have these images or it's not. Personally, I'm not sure all the characters are copyrighted, because wouldn't their copyright have expired when the movies did, since they were copyrighted at the same time? You can't continuously renew copyrights. (However, they may be protected by trademark, which lasts as long as it's being used. I know most of the Disney characters are.) Rocket000 21:30, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  CommentWould it be fare if the images are to be replaced with short animated gifs from those PD cartoons? --Alex:D 00:44, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It would be the same situation. The images (or movies) themselves are Public Domain, however, outside of copyright, there may be other issues which prevent them from being used in any way. Rocket000 18:53, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Using the example: Image:Americanairlines.arp.750pix.jpg. If you cut the AA logo and create derivative works, you are violating the copyright. The image is in public domain, but the logo don't. Will we delete all images with copyrighted components? Rossicev 13:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Now you start mixing copyrights and trademarks. That's not the primary point with these cartoons. Lupo 14:13, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, some cartoon characters are trademarked too, but that's a seperate issue. In this case, it's not necessarily how you use the works that would be a violation (which would pertain to TM), but simply the distribution of them. They may not be copyrighted, but other copyrights can prevent their free use. Rocket000 18:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, leaving the trademarks... the image Image:Ana.b747.pokemon.arp.750pix.jpg. Cut off Pikachu, make some adjustments in photoshop and... You can't use it. The image above is an example, other photos can take images from other parts, maybe with a "clean" image of the characters. Rossicev 12:38, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I would say "keep", for the reason that the orginal frames are PD as well, and because of Rossicev's comment: in EVERY PD-image you can find SOMETHING which is, under SOME law, under copyright. Herodotus 17:55, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment We could add a comment (maybe in the form of a template), with a warning that the character is still under copyright- which makes derivative works and commercial use problematic. Herodotus 17:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep Based upon hundreds of observed samples of commercial works (public domain videos seen over the last two decades), still images from the public domain film in question, and even derivative images, are allowed when used in reference to the work itself. I've never really heard anything about studios coming after public domain video makers who use stills or derivative drawings based directly upon images in the public domain cartoons they are selling, even when said images are of recognizable characters still owned by large corporations (Elmer Fudd, Superman, Popeye, etc.). In addition, I have never seen a single one of these items credit the original copyright holders or even the holders of the current copyrights or trademarks. As I understand it, you have to copyright each and every distinct usage of a character; if a particular usage falls into the public domain, then that particular item can be used for a number of uses, so long as you are not using the likeness of a trademarked character in a new derivative work which has nothing directly to do with promoting or exhibiting the public domain film in question (because a new derivative work featuring, say, Bugs Bunny, based upon Falling Hare could easily be found to be derivative of another Bugs Bunny cartoon because they all use the same character design. Therefore, you could appear to be infringing Warners' copyright on any number of the other hundreds of Bugs Bunny cartoons. The only context you would be able to use an image of Falling Hare with Bugs' name and likeness without express permission would be some sort of educational/informational project specifically relating to that film or the film series. But that's what we do here). Someone should try and contact an entertainment lawyer before hastily deleting all of these public-domain images, but I really don't think there's an issue here, especially since this is not-for-profit educational use.

I found this link to a copyright advice website:

c. Literary Characters. To the extent a literary character becomes associated with a particular producer or source, it can be protected under trademark and unfair competition laws -- even if the character is no longer protected by copyright. For example, "Popeye," who made his first appearance in 1929 in a weekly cartoon strip called "The Thimble Theatre," will slip unconscious into the public domain on January 1, 2024. The fact the original "Popeye" character will fall into the public domain, does not preclude King Features from claiming trademark rights in the character, or protecting later strips or non-trivial changes to the original character. However, it is debatable whether they could stop you from copying the public domain strips if you carefully alerted purchasers that you were not doing it with the authority of King Features, and it was a faithful reproduction.

...and this link from an online book:

"Trademark infringement can only occur when someone's trademark is used without permission as a trademark to help consumers identify the source of goods or services. This can only occur in a commercial context - that is, where a trademark is used in advertising or on a product or merchandise.

Informational or 'editorial' uses of trademarks are always permitted - especially where they are the only way to refer to or discuss a particular product or service. Uses such as these inform, educate, or express opinions or ideas protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which protects freedom of speech and of the press. For example, permission is not required to use the Chevrolet logo in an article describing Chevrolet trucks, even if the article is critical of the company. Similarly, permission is not needed if a Coca-Cola sign appears in a news report or documentary film."

I'm pretty sure that any Wikimedia uses of these works is perfectly fine (as someone suggested above, we may need a tag which prevents people from using some of these to create derivative, non-informational commerical works). --FuriousFreddy99 04:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That´s nonsense, Freddy. The content of Wikipedia has to be completely free, also for commercial use and not only for educational use. What you mean is fair use, but fair use isn´t allowed in Commons. And don´t mix "copyright law" up with "trademark law". These are completely different laws. Chaddy 02:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
@Herodotus: That also applys to you. "A comment with a warning that the character is still under copyright- which makes derivative works and commercial use problematic" is also fair use and incompatible with pillar no. 3. By the way: Delete because these images are a copyright violation. Chaddy 02:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment About the remark on the Snow White stills: Character copyright would be Disney's.

This is untrue. The characters of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are public domain, since they are much older than the Disney adaption (like the Grimm-adaptions). I think the debate on the Snow White -stills is another one than on the Fleischer/WB-cartoons. The Snow White-stills feature public domain-characters, they are from a public domain-trailer, but the original work is still under copyright. The Betty Boop, Popeye etc.-stills are from public domain-works, only the characters are trademarked. I propose a separation of these debates. Herodotus 00:30, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment From what is said in the Wikipedia content guidelines on the public domain with regard to animated movies (cartoons) , a movie cannot be treated as being in the public domain if it contains cartoon characters that are copyrighted. It is very possible that the images constitute copyright infringement (and possibly also trademark infringement.) -- Gazebo 03:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. This seems to be a contentious issue since the cartoons from which the images are taken from are in the public domain. I actually question the public domain status of the cartoons themselves. I think the copyright holders of the characters in these cartoons could enforce their copyright on these works if they wanted to and they would have a decent case. Although the cartoons have clerically lapsed into the public domain, it remains that they're derivative work of characters that are still under copyright.
Legal challenges were made about the film It's a Wonderful Life, since the film can be classified as derivative work of a copyrighted story. As a result, the film is no longer considered public domain. I think the images in question and the cartoons they come from aren't in public domain, so these images should be deleted. Jtalledo 18:58, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment But in that case, shouldn't any reproduction of the characters also be illegal? I mean, if I go to DisneyWorld and take pictures of Mickey and Minnie (the big costumes) and upload here it would still be illegal, since the Mickey and Minnie-characters are copyright to Disney? Which in turn means that no Wikipedia-pages concerning animated characters can ever be illustrated. Or does the legality of the pictures only come into question if the pictures are animated (screencaps from trailers, movies or posters, etc)? Icea 17:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • ' Keep'. Why did we must delete it? it rights are now falled and it no belong to the DC Comics,so why delete it?
  • ' Keep' as per other comments. This is from the trailer, which comes out before the movie. If the movie is PD then anything before that in relation to this movie is PD...why would it not be? DragonFire1024 01:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete The characters are still copyrighted even if a derivative falls into the public domain. -Nard 03:21, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep If they can sell DVDs of the Max Fleischer 1940's Superman cartoons for $1.00 at Wal-Mart without any form of license from DC Comics, I really don't see why we can't host screen-grabs of those same cartoons here on Wikimedia Commons. Presumably the companies that publish these DVDs can afford legal advice from actual lawyers. AnonMoos 14:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We are not Wal-Mart here. This is WikiCommons. We host thousands of free images (and other media). We must keep the copyright. Only because the cartoons get selled in a supermarket, they are not free. Or do you think, the cartoon series "the Simpsons" is free? You can buy a Simpsons DVD at Wal-Mart, too... Chaddy 16:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dude, you really didn't understanding what I was saying. Cheap DVDs are sold in many places WITHOUT any license from DC Comics because the Max Fleischer cartoons are OUT OF COPYRIGHT in the United States of America (as discussed on the Wikipedia article en:Superman_(1940s_cartoons)). An "official" DC Comics DVD release of these cartoons would almost certainly cost a hell of a lot more than $1. Therefore your comments didn't particularly contribute anything useful to this discussion. 17:11, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you... May be, the cartoons are PD in the USA. But in the rest of the world, they are still copyrighted. So they can´t be used on Commons. Chaddy 18:58, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, the general rule for Commons is that images should be "free" both in their country of origin and the United States. Since in this case the U.S. is the country of origin, U.S. law is the all that matters to us here. AnonMoos 19:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think they're PD. Try selling a derivative work. The character is copyrighted. They're in some limbo state until the character copyright expires. Lupo 20:38, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
To be specific, Image:Fleishersuperman.jpg is a simple screen grab from a cartoon which is in the public domain in the United States, as evidenced by the fact that super-cheap DVD's of those cartoons are sold above-the-board in many legitimate retail outlets in the United States as of this very moment. If the cartoon itself is in the Public Domain (something which DC Comics / Warner Brothers doesn't seem to have contested), then why isn't the screen grab of the PD cartoon also PD?? AnonMoos 20:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Point made, so what's your response to the points Lupo made here? - Rocket000 21:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
He talks about how the process of "fixing something in a different medium" mysteriously changes something from Public Domain to Copyrighted -- but as far as I can see, the cartoon is made up of still frames shown in consecutive order at a rate of 24 frames per second, so if the whole cartoon is Public Domain, then each of the individual frames which compose it must also be in the Public Domain. AnonMoos 02:01, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree these frames are PD, but if I make a derivative from them? Can I crop out all these characters and make a collage? - Rocket000 02:52, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Some cheap DVD releases may involve copyrighted works. For instance, the 1954 animated version of Animal Farm was available as a cheap DVD release. (There was also a Animal Farm release that included additional material, but this other release was probably not as cheap.) -- Gazebo 05:54, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
(reset indent) I don't understand the concept of 'the characters are still in copyright' - copyright pertains to an instance, a publication of a particular item. So some drawings, the original drawings perhaps, of these characters are still copyrighted? The 'characters' are not copyrighted (that doesn't make sense to me, unless there is some special case for characters?). If cartoons are considered derivative works, then I'd expect anyone who owns copyright of the 'original' drawings of the characters to complain - have they ever asserted this, are the cartoons not really PD? The next thing that occurs to me is that cutting frames from the cartoon strip is creating derivative works of the cartoon (the cartoon is one very long image that is usually viewed a little bit at a time (a frame at a time)) - the license status of this derivative work depends on the status of the parent work - fairly straight forward? The only important question is whether the cartoon is actually PD? --Tony Wills 10:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As I understand the argument (Lupo, please correct me if I'm wrong), the suggestion is that each of these images show characters that:

  • (a) appeared in some first publication (let's call it A) (eg a book or a film) which still remains in copyright, and
  • (b) that these images are stills taken from a later derivative cartoon (let's call it B) on which for some reason (eg copyright owner forgot to renew under US law?) the copyright has expired.

I agree that the expression "copyright in a character" isn't strictly speaking correct, but what is presumably meant here is "copyright in the appearance of a character as it was actually drawn in A".

On that basis, the owner of the copyright in A can eg under Russell v. Price, 612 F.2d 1123,1128 (9th Cir. 1979) prevent others from creating new images which infringe that original copyright, even if those new images are also derivative or partly derivative of one of the PD images in B. It would be OK of course to create a new image which is derivative of B only, but for this type of character it may be in practice be difficult or impossible to make a derivative of B which is not also an infringing derivative of A.

Note that it's perfectly OK to use any B image as it is, without amendment, which is why Wal-Mart's lawyers have no doubt advised that they are free to sell copies of 1940's Superman cartoons for $1.00 without needing a licence from DC Comics. Any company that wanted to sell comics or DVDs that differed in any way from the 1940's PD cartoons would however need a licence.

Now it's clear that this only applies if there is some earlier drawing A which is still in copyright. If the character was first drawn for the cartoon B, with no earlier appearance, then once that cartoon has fallen into the public domain anyone is free to copy it, including making derivative versions.

Not all of the images listed above have the necessary information immediately available, and I think we need to look at the images and characters one by one. For each, we need to find out if we can whether there was some earlier appearance, and if so whether that earliest work is still in copyright. If so, we arguably can't release the cartoon stills (whether PD or not) under the four freedoms, as Lupo suggests. If the earliest work is now copyright-free we then need to look critically at the validity of the PD claim that has been made for the specific cartoon. If both works A and B are PD are we in the clear. Of course, if the cartoon is itself the earliest copyright work, and it is truly PD, then we are OK as well.

It's by no means clear to me that we ought to delete even if it can be shown that there exist other images, A, that are still in copyright. Surely the rule here is that we delete if an image is restricted in use by virtue of its own copyright protection. I would argue there is no consensus, yet, that we should delete an image B on the grounds that modifying it might infringe the copyright of some other image, A. By all means let's tag these images to warn people of the existence of A, and leave it to users to take their own legal advice as to the extent they can modify and re-use B without running into copyright problems with A.

In practice no-one is able to use these images B commercially anyway because of some very strongly-enforced non-copyright constraints such as trademark rights, and passing off/unfair competition rights, so any additional copyright-constraint arising from A may in fact make no practical difference. We may end up deleting large numbers of useful images that are perfectly OK if used unamended on Wikipedia or elsewhere just because there may be copyright constraints based on some other images that we don't host, copyright constraints that in practice make little or no difference to how the images can actually be used.

For those reasons, I would Keep, and tag with an appropriate warning (assuming someone can verify the claim that the cartoons have in fact now fallen into the public domain). --MichaelMaggs 15:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would expect (but then copyright law has nothing to do with expectations ;-) that derivatives consisting of short exerps of a PD film would also be PD (down to single frames?) - no creativity has been added, no new copyright is generated. I now think that problems only arise when re-arranging frames or cutting bits from frames which could truely be said to create derivative works. We have a bit of a precident for the original being free license, but derivatives being problematic: the case of freedom-of-panorama images which contain some element (eg logo in the background) which, if cut out on its own, would be a copyright violation. Perhaps just a standard warning about how derivatives might infringe copyright --Tony Wills 20:04, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Split up and relist Honestly, while it would be nice to deal with an issue such as this, there are so many images being discussed here and each has their own little nuance on why they are here. I feel like we should focus on each image individually. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 09:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Since w:Mike Godwin is a general cousel for the Wikimedia Foundation, it could be useful to ask him what he thinks. / Fred J (talk) 09:29, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Here's what Wikipedia's own article on derivative works has to say:

When a derivative work is copyrighted, 17 U.S.C. § 103(b) dictates that, [t]he copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material. Thus, registering a derivative work will not artificially extend the length or scope of protection of the underlying work.

To me, it sound's like Lupo is arguing that, since the characters have appeared in derivative works since the original (now expired) work, the characters are still under copyright. This does not jive with the explanation of derivative works above. Please explain if I misunderstand Lupo's argument. - 75.68.224.236 16:00, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify the above, let's look at a specific example: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Allegedly, the copyright on Disney's 1937 movie expired because it was not renewed. Assuming this is true, the film is now in the public domain. As for the characters, i.e. the seven dwarfs and Snow White, they (Disney's version of these characters) made their first appearance in this film. So any supposed "copyright on the characters" is the same copyright that the film was protected under. The truth is, there is no separate copyright on the characters. The entire film is a single work with a single copyright protecting it and everything contained in it.
If the characters appeared in later films, then these new films do not renew or otherwise extend the copyright term of the original film, because the creation of derivative works does not extend the duration of the copyright of the original (as explained above). Once the original film's copyright expires, so too does the copyright on all content within the film, including the characters.
Of course, the characters might be trademarked, which is an entirely different thing from copyright. And there is no problem with trademarks being displayed in an encyclopedia or other reference material, so this should not affect the ability of these images to be displayed here.
It seems to me that Lupo's argument is based on either the erroneous assumption that copyrights on derivative works can somehow extend the copyright of original works, or on the erroneous confusion of copyrights and trademarks. Again, if I'm wrong and misunderstand your argument, Lupo, please clarify why you believe that the copyrights on the characters are still in effect if the copyright on the original films (or books, or whatever) that the characters first appeared in has expired. Regards, Moulding 20:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
One more thing: I don't think it is even possible to "copyright a character", in the sense that you could put a copyright on any and all likenesses of a character. The reason is because a copyright can only be obtained on a specific instance of some fixed, tangible work. For instance, you could copyright a drawing of Mickey Mouse standing up. But that copyright would not cover a different drawing of Mickey Mouse where he is sitting in a chair, because these are two distinct works. Now, the second drawing might be considered a derivative of the first if they are similar enough. But this is not the same thing as a copyright on a character. The copyright was on a specific drawing of Mickey Mouse. And the second drawing was a derivative of the first. Using the phrase "copyright on the character" instead of "copyright on the drawing" is a bit misleading. Moulding 21:17, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This is not true. Characters are copyrighted. It would be illegal for me to write another Harry Potter book, even if I changed the names due to it being a derivative of the character. -Nard 21:37, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sure you may be infringing a copyright if you wrote a new book that was too similar to the Harry Potter series, even if you changed the names. But it would need to be similar enough to be considered a derivative of one or more of the existing Harry Potter books. In the end, the copyright you are infringing is not a copyright on Harry (the character) but a copyright on a specific Harry Potter novel. This is precisely the distinction I am trying to point out: it is the book that is copyrighted, not the character. But because the character appears in the book, the copyright on the book also protects the character. Some here are confusing the matter by attempting to claim that the character Harry could somehow be protected by a copyright that is distinct from the copyright on the book. This is simply not the case. Moulding 22:12, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I find the distinction compelling: if the first harry potter book were out of copyright, and the last harry potter book was not, creating a generally derivative work using harry potter would be in violation because for protection of the copyright holder, the latest parentage for the derivative work has to be assumed (so the latest harry potter book), whereas directly reproducing a part of the first, copyright expired book would necessarily have to be acceptable to protect any kind of fair use from the claim that a newer work under copyright happens to contain the same character. Situations different than that scenario would either imply that fair use was impossible to execute(J.K. Rowlings just wrote about Luna Lovegood in her latest book, so you can only use pages 23 and 19 of the out-of-copyright book now!) or that copyright was impossible to execute (I wrote a fan book with harry potter in it, but it's the old harry potter, so you can't sue me!). 137.238.84.70 06:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about these pictures? [124] [125]. It says they qualify as fair use. What is the difference with the above listed images? Anyway, I think the examples about using Harry Potter to write an alternative novel or make a new film are entirely different from showing a sample of a film character to inform about the film or character, stating who its author or owner is, in an encyclopedic work (which is non-profit BTW).the preceding unsigned comment was added by 150.241.250.3 (talk • contribs)

Every image in Wikipedia must be free for every use and everyone. Also for commercial use. Chaddy 18:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I note at least one of these characaters, Olive Oyl, dates back to the 1910s (originally as a newspaper cartoon character), so the character design would be PD-US as well in addition to whatever relevent copyright of the film cartoon. -- Infrogmation 21:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. The films themselves are public domain, thus no copyright is held for these screencaps. (Ibaranoff24 05:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]
  • Keep. By all appearances, in practice, these films are in the public domain. You could not, admittedly, create a Superman cartoon as a derivative work of them, but this is largely because you would be hard-pressed to argue that it is a derivative work only of these cartoons and not of the still-under-copyright comics. You could certainly create a spin-off of any of the villains or non-comics-based characters. As for the individual screencap, the cartoons are freely available as it stands, and the screencaps thus are as well. Phil Sandifer 15:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. The law is clear. It's not so simple as declaring that a single work is or isn't copyrighted when it adapts previously existing copyrighted works. It is not disputed that Superman as a character, including his appearance, is copyrighted. Superman was not introduced in the Fleischer cartoons, but previously in DC Comics, and DC properly renewed the copyrights in all of its titles featuring Superman. The character's copyright is therefore not dependent upon the status of the Fleischer cartoons' copyright in any way. The Fleischer cartoons then entered the public domain when their copyright was not renewed. But that means that only the elements that originated in those cartoons—whatever Fleischer studios itself authored—became public domain. As those cartoons contained elements from preexisting, independently copyrighted works (the character of Superman, the character of Lois Lane, etc.), whatever elements Fleischer Studios made use of but did not author could not be released into the public domain by their inaction (the fact that their use was licensed also has no bearing on this issue). Read the Wikipedia article on It's a Wonderful Life to look at it another way. The film is in the public domain. However, the story that it adapted is not. This means that the story's authors have rights over whatever portions of the film derive from that story, but everything else that originated in that film (still images would apply here because a photograph can't copy a non-visual narrative) is public domain. Postdlf 15:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think you're misframing the issue here - the issue is not the copyright of Superman, but the copyright of this licensed and legally created image of Superman. Which nobody, it seems to me, disputes the freedom of, since the cartoon it came from is widely distributed for free and without license fees. There is a muddied issue of derivative works here - as I said, one probably cannot create a Superman comic and claim it is derived from the Fleischer cartoons, not the comic (If only because such a claim would be laughed at). But the point remains that the cartoon itself is public domain, and is routinely distributed as such. Phil Sandifer 16:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • No, the issue is entirely the copyright of Superman. Saying that a work is in the public domain is to say that no one has copyright in it. However, the nature of a derivative work is that it incorporates preexisting elements in which others have copyright. This means that multiple authors may have rights over one single work. The Fleischer Studios cartoon is a derivative of the Superman character and comic book stories. That it was licensed just means that DC gave them permission and couldn't sue them for doing this. Then Fleischer Studios didn't renew their copyrights, and so Fleischer lost their rights over the cartoons. Their rights only encompassed what they authored in those cartoons, not what they made derivative use of. What Fleischer Studios authored is now in the public domain, nothing more. Once again, the cartoons are works of composite authorship—DC's preexisting properties and Fleischer Studios' animation. The loss of Fleischer Studios' rights did not and could not affect DC's rights, which are separate and preexisting. To say the cartoon is in the public domain is only to say that what originated in that cartoon may be freely used. Postdlf 16:50, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • See also this prior discussion on this very issue at Wikipedia. Postdlf 16:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • Superman is actually a different case from the other images by the looks of it. The drawings of superman in comics that are still copyrighted and predate the cartoons may well be sufficient to restrict the use of the cartoon stills. In the other cases, I don't think any copyrighted representations of the characters predate the cartoon appearances that are now PD. The argument for deleting the superman stills is therefore much stronger. WjBscribe 17:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I think that Russell v. Price and Filmvideo Releasing Corp. v. Hastings have to be read to mean that in US law, the fact that a derivative is now in the public domain does not mean that distribution of the derivative does not continue to be affected by copyright on the original work or concept. In this case, if the characters are still the subject of copyright, these stills could be used in a number of ways quite legitimately - their use on Wikipedias for example would be legally sound. But they probably cannot be modified and commercially re-used. One could not for example crop bugs bunny from an image, add the character into another image and sell it as a poster. That would infringe rights to the bugs bunny character. Given that modification and commercial reuse must be possible for images to be considered "free", I think I have to conclude that these are not. Obviously local projects would be strongly encouraged to keep copies of these stills under appropriate fair use rationales. However, I would like to see more argument to confirm that these characters are indeed still the subject of copyright - how has this legal protection been maintained? Presumably simple appearances in later derivatives still the subject of copyright would not be enough. Could someone clarify the basis for saying these characters are still subject to copyright? I suspect those characters are registered trademarks but Commons hosts many images that are trademarks. I am not sure one can have "copyright" over a character, as opposed to specific representation of a character. WjBscribe 17:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • You can have copyright over a character that is separate and apart from specific works that portray or make use of that character. American copyright case law is consistent on this (I remember in particular a case involving James Bond and an infringing commercial that had a tuxedo-wearing, suave action hero). Otherwise, anyone could make derivative use of any character without licensing. Plus we're dealing with a visual representation of a character here—a graphic image consisting of the character's costume and other appearance. Postdlf 17:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • No James Bond films or books are in the public domain though - and my vague recollection is that the case you refer to is actually about an actor's contract (Pierce Brosnan could not appear in a full tuxedo in "The Thomas Crown Affair" because of his contractual obligations from playing James Bond). If no appearances of a chracter are PD, then any recreation of them (or something similar) violates copyright - its a derivative of a copyrighted work. But it is the appearance of the character - photo, movie etc. that is copyrighted, not the character itself. The character's protection is derived from the fact that its appeances are all copyrighted. If the "first drawing" of one of the characters is still copyrighted, then derivatives of that images are a problem. But copyright on a character could not be created by their continuing to appear in copyrighted derivatives if the original appearances are now PD. But I admit my expertise is limited to European (not US) copyright law - I would like to see something that confirms this idea that US law recognises some sort of separate copyright of a character. At the moment, I think people are confused by the fact that these characters are trademarked and that they have appeared in later drawings that are still copyrighted. WjBscribe 17:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • The James Bond case involved a car commercial, it had nothing to do with contract law; see Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. v. American Honda Motor Co., Inc., 900 F. Supp. 1287 (C.D. Cal. 1995) ("the Court FINDS as a matter of law that Plaintiffs own the copyright to the James Bond character as expressed and delineated in their 16 films."). And as the case law discussed in that case makes clear, it's not just the visual appearance of graphic characters that can be copyrighted; purely literary characters can be copyrighted too, if they are sufficiently distinct. Whether a portraying work is PD only matters for the fate of that character's copyright if that character originated in that work. Once again, if a particular work enters the public domain, that only means that no one holds copyright to what originated in that work. Postdlf 17:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
          • But in some of these instances, the drawings now in the PD are the original works. With the superman images I think it ma be right that the comics that predate the cartoons means that all we have is a PD derivative. What I am asking about is the situation where the cartoons that are now PD are the first drawings of the character. Ideas cannot be the subject of copyright by themselves. Lets try a simple hypothetical scenario. I come up with the idea of "Chloe the Kangaroo" and make some drawings of her in black and white. Years later, I make more detailed drawings of her in colour. I fail to renew the copyright on my black and white drawings but the colour ones are still in copyright. "Chloe the Kangaroo" does not exist, only black and white and colour drawings of her. The black and white drawings of her are now PD and I cannot prevent those images being used in derivatives. However if the derivative is colour and closely resembles those drawings, I may have an action for infringing my copyright on the colour images of Chloe. If it were the other way round (b&w still copyright, colour not) then it must be right that the colour images are mere derivatives and their becoming PD does not affect the original copyright. Of course, I may protect my interest in "Chloe" with a trademark but it is copyright under discussion here. Does that make sense, where all we have are drawings, the only copyright there can possibly is in the drawings. WjBscribe 18:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
            • If in fact the originating works for any of those characters are in the public domain, then yes, the character as portrayed in those works would also be public domain. If the character was further developed or modified in later works that are still copyrighted, then those later changes to the character would not be public domain (you have to conceptually deconstruct the elements of a character to deal with this). So can you actually document that for any of the above characters, the images are not derivatives of prior works that are still copyrighted? Postdlf 18:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
              • My point is that this was what this discussion here needs to focus on: for each of the images deleted, is there (or is there not) a previous copyrighted representation of the character that may restrict the ability to reuse the derivative that is now in the public domain. A blanket nomination is unhelful - each of the images listed may raise separate issues that need to be investigated. WjBscribe 18:24, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
                • Yes, that is the issue. But there's no point in splitting any of them off from this discussion absent any proof that there are no prior copyrighted works from which these derive. The burden should be on those asserting that the image is freely usable. Postdlf 18:30, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and re-evaluate on a case by case basis before renominating - I have some experience in US intellectual property law and I have never heard of this idea that you can copyright a character in the sense that it is being used here. Please give a citation for this concept. People are very badly mixing trademark law in above as well, the only non-commercial/educational issues mentioned in the cases above relate to trademarks and have nothing whatsoever to do with the demands of the CC or GFDL licenses, which are copyright licenses. Under copyright law if these are in the public domain you can make any use of them you wish, on the other hand, you may end up having to pay damages to the trademark owners (who may not even be the same as the former copyright holders) or even get enjoined from using trademarks if you insist on trying to use them commercially. I understand that there is the idea of an intervening expired copyright wherein the original work could still be copyrighted, but that needs to be evaluated separately and on a case by case basis and shouldn't require deletion of the PD derivative work under our policies, unless w:User:Mike Godwin says otherwise. (I will caveat this however by saying that I am much less familiar with Commons policies than with English Wikipedia policies - my experience in the past on Commons being primarily for uploading my own images - so I may be missing something.) --BewareofDoug 19:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC) (aka w:User:Doug)[reply]
    • Could you clarify for me at all? Your answer seems to indicate that using these images would not infringe on the copyright which is currently held on the Superman character who debuted in 1939. What is the nature of that copyright? Is it possible that this image could be used in any manner which would not infringe on that copyright? For example, if I created a comic book, with my own novel story, using these images, would that be free or would it infringe any copyright held in the Superman character? If this comic book would infringe then there is still some copyright attached in this image, yes? To me, this looks like it may well be in the public domain, but with the protections that the current copyright holder already has on the Superman character, it is more likely that this image can be used similar to a creative commons no derivatives license or a rights restricted license. If that is the case, we must review Commons:Licensing#Acceptable_licenses which clearly states: All material on the Commons must be licensed under a free license that allows anyone to use the material for any purpose (see also Commons:Criteria for inclusion). In particular, the license must meet the following conditions: Publication of derivative work must be allowed. Based on that, if it is indeed the case that not all derivatives of this image can be allowed under copyright law, then this image does not meet the commons criteria and must be deleted. This debate needs to focus on that main point of commons policy. Can all derivatives of this work be allowed, can these images be used for any purpose, including creating new comic books featuring the character depicted, or would existing copyrights on the Superman character prevent them. I believe derivatives could infringe copyright on the Superman character, and therefore the images must be deleted to comply with Commons policy. Hiding 16:58, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • According to the Wikipedia content guidelines on the public domain with regard to animated movies (cartoons), at least some fictional characters can be copyrighted. At the same time, for a movie to be treated as being in the public domain, the guidelines specify that the movie cannot contain any copyrighted characters. (This is not to say that every fictional character is copyrighted.) There might be something to be said for considering the images on a case-by-case basis. -- Gazebo 05:53, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Relist on an individual basis - the copyright issues around these specific images are too fuzzy for us to draw a clear general conclusion. It's better to nominate a single image, get input from some professional IP lawyers, and begin to set a precedent for other deletions if necessary. Dcoetzee 04:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note that a precedent was set in Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Donaldduck-thespiritof43-2.jpg... Lupo 10:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image is under the PNG Factory license which does not allow commercial reuse. Lokal_Profil 21:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

License in English can be found here. Affected images are

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Also Category:Nintendo pixel art could be deleted afterwards since it contains only these iamges. /Lokal_Profil 22:07, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted (but kept the cat, it still has one image in it). Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 20:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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As far as I see, the user (: User:Moldopodo) just uploads files from various authors, mostly taken from the website http://www.beltsy.md/ licensing it with Template:PD-MD-exempt. The template shows which content is not covered by copyright, but why fall these images in this category? --Polarlys 22:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • The images do not fall under this license, because photographs taken by government officials are still under copyright. Delete User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 09:51, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Clear copyvio cases, already 3 months old by now Delete Fransvannes 21:09, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I see no reason {{PD-MD-exempt}} would apply and I see no attempt to explain why it would. These images are not laws, court decisions, state emblems, official signs, folklore expressions or daily news and facts of simple informational nature; they're expressive, original and creative works of the mind. LX (talk, contribs) 23:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, you really did not search very far into the matter to say that they come from www.beltsy.md ... and the best of it that nobody even contests, it's enough that one persons says bullshit and everybody repeats... how smart. I will not change any license to the proper self-tag or whatever there should be as a matter of principle, because of malicious manipulations of Future Perfect at Sunrise and her disruptive editing. Delete them all, I don't givea damn, poor geeks, but one thing is sure I am not uploading them or modifying the licenses to the ones there should be as a matter of principle. There are ways to explain it politely and to draw one's attention to improve in advance and not like Future Perfect at Sunrise did, by announcing a posteriori "they are deleted".--Moldopodo 06:46, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete except for the flags and CoAs which appears to fall under Template:PD-MD-exempt. /Lokal_Profil 13:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete most. I've looked at {{PD-MD-exempt}} and it would appear to apply to some of the images I'm seeing in the upload log, but not to most i.e. to the flags and CoAs referred to by Lokal Profil above. It may be that the deleted Image:Balti-arm.jpg would qualify, too, if the proper license were added. For the most part, however, the images I've checked do not seem to qualify and they should be deleted by someone experienced with this bit of law. This is a pity, as many of the images would be nice to have if they could be properly sourced and licensed. Cheers, User:Jack Merridew a.k.a. David 09:14, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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All images by User:DrTurtlesse. This appears to be a bunch of the same images that portrait nonsense... Siebrand 20:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Delete nonsense. 24.89.233.235 00:28, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Delete nonsense Durova 23:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Arria Belli | parlami 18:18, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Newspaper clippings are fair use only; the newspaper has a coypright on selection and arrangement at least, and the texts also are copyrighted. The clippings are from Canadian newspapers. Delete all three. Lupo 23:22, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The photographs and articles by Ingelbert Lievaart were put up by him through me and are his, his permission, he wrote the material and it is his. The queen scout.jpg was there at the request of the wikipedia Queen scout group as proof that I was a Eagle and Queen scout.

I'm working a backlog of potential entries for List of Eagle Scouts (Boy Scouts of America). I need a good reference before we can add Wayne Ray to the list. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 09:53, 12 July 2007 (UTC) (deleted personal e-mails) That will not meet Wikipedia:Verifiability. We need something published like a newspaper article. It does not have to be web accessible if we have the full cite. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 22:59, 12 July 2007 (UTC) Oh gotcha, that was back in 1968 or 69, I only have that newspaper article, not much related to Scouting just articles and reviews and interviews on my website wayneray.ca/indexx.html , sorry WayneRay 03:06, 13 July 2007 (UTC)WayneRay If you scan the article, it can be put on WikiSource and used as a ref. Rlevse 09:50, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

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He apparently did not write the article about DiCicco's election results; there's some other name mentioned top left. Lupo 13:41, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. MichaelMaggs 16:51, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Derivative work. -Nard 03:26, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many of the Felix cartoons are now in the public domain. See Commons:Deletion requests/Cartoons (with which this should probably be amalgamated). AnonMoos 19:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Felix originated before 1923, so it's unlikely that the same character-copyright arguments would apply. --dave pape 01:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, unequivocally Keep -- AnonMoos 10:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:35, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Derivative image. -Nard 22:32, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. {{pd-textlogo}}, but with {{trademark}}. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:38, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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What does "parish heraldy" have to do with copyright? -Nard 03:23, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. License since changed to {{PD-ineligible}}, but coats of arms are not ineligible for copyright. —Angr 19:33, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Same as Image:002-a.png. Can someone who can read Ukranian say which image should be deleted? Patstuart (talk) 10:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept, of course it's the same image as itself. —Angr 19:31, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Out of project scope. EugeneZelenko 17:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is it (translation?), how do you know it is outside project scope? --Tony Wills 03:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. It appears to be the signature of Wang Dan. Apparently not out of project scope since it's being used at zh:王丹. —Angr 19:27, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Other images by this uploader (vi:Hình:Tomorrow.jpg) do not inspire confidence that this very non-amateur looking photo was self-created.

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 Delete, since I ever took photos for Eddie Peng at 2008 TIBE, I think this photo can be replaced and deleted. Rico Shen contact... 18:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. —Angr 19:29, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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same as Image:Handbuch Hanicke 12.jpg (wrong name) Kuerschner 18:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete Bad name, also Image:Handbuch Hanicke 12.jpg is better quality. --GeorgHHtalk   21:46, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. —Angr 19:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Derivative work. Are you painter? EugeneZelenko 17:05, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Yes, she is.

 Delete Unless permission is sent by the painter to OTRS in the next 7 days. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. No permission has been found in the Wikimedia OTRS system.Trixt (talk) 23:06, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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According to fr:Riccardo Simonutti, painter is still alive. Are you painter? EugeneZelenko 17:07, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I'm. What is the problem with this pic ?

Can you answer me ?

 Delete Unless permission is sent by the painter to OTRS in the next 7 days. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. No permission has been found in the Wikimedia OTRS system.Trixt (talk) 23:09, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Outside project scope, derivative image. -Nard 15:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


It's a derivative image of one of MY photos and I have the permission of the organization. You can imagine that if the organization is communist they doesn't believe in copyright.the preceding unsigned comment was added by Delatorre (talk • contribs)

Emailing permission to OTRS for confirmation would be nice. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:37, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. No permission has been found in the Wikimedia OTRS system. If the organization is communist they doesn't believe in copyright: no proof that this statement is valid.Trixt (talk) 21:25, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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PD-old not assured.Code·is·poetry 09:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete That's right... Körnerbrötchen » 12:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. PD not 100% guaranteed, but considering Stenzler was born in 1807, this image is unlikely to have been taken after 1860. The chances that the copyright on this has not expired are unrealistically remote. —Angr 19:47, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No proof for PD-old given, author unknown.Code·is·poetry 09:35, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. The chances that the copyright on this image has not expired are unrealistically small. —Angr 19:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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PD-old is not assured, author unknown.Code·is·poetry 09:38, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Lamont died in 1879; the chances the copyright on this painting has not expired are unrealistically slim. —Angr 19:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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PD-old not assured, no author given.Code·is·poetry 13:42, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Bock died in 1874; the chances the copyright on this photo has not expired are unrealistically slim. —Angr 20:02, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Probably not PD-old as made in 1900, no author given.Code·is·poetry 13:57, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept and license changed to {{Anonymous-EU}}. —Angr 20:10, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Description is okay now after nld, but the license was added by an IP. abf /talk to me/ 09:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep It looks like own work. There are metadata for the image.--Ahonc (talk) 11:47, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image of someone else's artwork. I don't see how this could be GFDL. - Themightyquill 22:45, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would the embassy's extraterritoriality mean that Canadian FOP applies? Just a random thought - not sure if it only applies inside the building. --dave pape 02:46, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, but is it permanent or placed? Direct link to section: COM:FOP#Canada ~Kylu (u|t) 07:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is permanent, in the sense that it is on display there indefinitely as a feature of the facility rather than as some element of an exhibition. I don't know if it's physically bolted-down or anything, but it's more than 5 tons of metal, so frankly it's not going anywhere. The Tom 18:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, if you want to try to see whether the area OUTSIDE the Emabssy premises is considered to be American or Canadian territory, here is a suggestion: ask an policeman to go with you looking at the sculpture, and them do something that is apperantly unlawful, and then see if the police officer will intervene, or he will report to his superiors who will report to the State Department which port to the Embassy and ask for permission to intervene. --Boberger 18:26, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
BEANS!  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:37, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is one famous painting by René Magritte, where he just pictures a pipe. The title is "Ce n´est pas un pipe", which in short describes the matter of intellectual ownership. The photo is not "The Spirit of Haida Gail by Bill Reid", it is the phographers depiction of Bill Reid´s sculpture. The photo is a unique art of work in its own right, e.g. by choosing the angle, the lense properties, the exposure, how much and what that is contained in the photo etc. I hope ypou will now mor clear will understand how, not un image by, but a photo of somebody else´s artwork is an aretwork in its own right. --Boberger 18:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A photo of somebody else's artwork is a derivative work, meaning the copyright of the original also has to be taken into consideration. If this statue were located in Canada, the statue's own copyright would clearly not apply to the photo, because of the Freedom of Panorama exception. If the statue were located unambiguously in U.S. territory, the statue's own copyright would also apply to the photo, since sculptures are exempted from the U.S. Freedom of Panorama law. As it is, the statue is just outside the Canadian embassy in Washington DC, making it very hard to decide which country's interpretation of FOP is to be applied. —Angr 20:20, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Seems to be on the grounds of the Canadian Embassy, sovereign soil and all that. Canadian FOP applies and we are good to go. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unclear use of the category. --Rémih 17:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Badseed talk 16:08, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible copyright violation - original file at [129] makes no mention of Creative Commons license. --62.254.220.101 12:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed; I didn't want to request for speedy in case something had been overlooked. --62.254.220.101 10:38, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dear anon, in the meantime, would you consider creating an account? It would facilitate our discussion.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 18:29, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done! I tend not to contribute to Commons very frequently, so I didn't think it'd be necessary. --Saxsux 11:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it allows, for example, to distinguish between you and thousands of other anonymous editors. If your IP changes it would be hard to know if its you or not even in this discussion... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. it is true if copyright has been infringed then it is a resposibility to remove said article
Thanks, Anon. As part of the deletion nomination process, the original uploader has been notified - we're awaiting their response to make sure they don't have permission to use the image. --Saxsux 10:23, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Update. I have emailed the author, dr Richard Rogers, who wrote to me: "the digital divide cartograms are (c) 2005 Govcom.org. The copyright is on the maps themselves. Govcom.org is happy with (cc) Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike, as in science." As NC license are not accepted on Wikipedia, I'd like to ask him to give us a C permission, but for that I would need to give him an explanation of why this is the case. I cannot find a policy or any page on Commons that make it clear; I have a thread in Help desk and Village pump but all I got was this cartoon. I am sorry, but to convince a serious academic of why he should use a different license than the one he is used to I will likely need a little more than a comic strip... PS. Do note that if we can convince him we could get a lot of other useful graphics from this organization. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:29, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    See freedomdefined:Licenses/NC for a possibly useful “The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License”. --Mormegil 13:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issues aside, I think it's a bad cartogram/anamorphic map. It shows internet usage in relation to the original geographic size of a country, regardless of population density; i.e. if a country has high internet usage it can be shown smaller in size than another country with identical usage, if the latter happens to have larger territorial size. This makes interpretation hard. A better way to represent internet usage is shown in worldmapper.--83.77.187.104 16:35, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted, not free for commercial use, and there's been enough time to arrange a non-NC license. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 15:56, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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There is no indication on the author's SmugMug account showing that it is indeed public domain. Oakster 08:53, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was just going by the template: "As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain." Mshake3 04:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that, while it was taken by a US Soldier, was it part of his official duties or he did it as a private person. If you want to have images of WWE events that are in the public domain, I suggest giving Google a look. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 09:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. giggy (:O) 01:27, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The images of biel.ch are only usable for non-commercial, this is disallowed here.

Images: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=RotGelb uploaded from User:RotGelb

Source: http://www.biel.ch/ww/de/pub/verwaltung/bilddatenbank.cfm?fuseaction_img=categories&category_ID=13&category_lft=59&extendedsearch=0

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Deleted. Arria Belli | parlami 16:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Without an author, there is no proof for this 1914 postcard to be PD-Old. ChristophT 17:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The images of various types of the Polish Mountain Tourist Badge uploaded by User:Koniczek are suspected copyvios. The badges are issued by the Polish Tourist-Sightseeing Society (PTTK) and are pretty unlikely to be under the copyrighted free use licence. --Maire 18:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete For me it's clearly derivative work. We don't know who is the autor of it, so we can't say that's PD-old. Even if it's PD-old, then it seems that those photos aren't really self-made, and it's 3D object, so PD-art doesn't apply. Herr Kriss 19:11, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Julo 18:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Arria Belli | parlami 16:37, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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PD self does not apply. I doubt the user was the photographer who took this picture around 1910. ChristophT 17:14, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Uploader was confused or careless in uploading, but added image to gallery of photos of photographer dead for more than 70 years. Arria Belli | parlami 17:50, 25 February 2008 (UTC) Oops, my mistake, sorry. Deletion request reopened. Arria Belli | parlami 18:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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no date, no author, no permission - no evidence for PD-old ChristianBier 01:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment The date is certainly pre-1915 (Blücher sank at Dogger Bank) and this looks like a First World War-era postcard so you can probably safely say it was published pre-1923 but not necessarily in the US. Can also probably safely say it is German in origin though who took it, I don't know. So I would say it satisfies US PD standards but I don't know that it satisfies German PD standards. There is a colourised postcard version of this image (or another image in the same series) at Image:SMS Bluecher.01.jpg so if this one goes, that one should too, I guess. Gsl 2.0 03:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This is for sure German postcard published before WWI. It would be good, if somebody knew whose is the signature. Pibwl 23:11, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The "signature" would be the postcard publisher's mark but it is not one I have seen before. According to the Cornell copyright term & public domain guide a work published outside the United States before 1923 is in the public domain in the US (which does not agree with Help:Public domain for the period 1909-1923 -- which is right in this case?). As far as I understand Commons rules for PD, the photo must be PD in the US and the country of origin so the question is, is it PD in Germany? I assume it would have to satisfy "life+70" but I don't like our chances of identifying the photographer. Gsl 2.0 05:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. If the boat sank before 1915, I think that is good enough. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Image is not in public domain because it is credited to "Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute" not NASA, nor is the image hosted on NASA's website. Dream out loud 01:41, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To quote the New Horizons image usage policy http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/gallery/imageUsePolicy.php: "New Horizons is a NASA mission and adheres to the space agency's guidelines for image use and reproduction." Also, the NASA New Horizons webpage: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html uses, in its header, material that is clearly of the same set of drawings. As such I think it is safe to assume that although the images were created by JHUAPL, they do fall under the general NASA/JHUAPL image usage policy for the New Horizons mission. But the only way to be sure of course is to call JHUAPL. (which i won't be doing since i'm not in the USA). TheDJ 15:53, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. They use NASA policy, good enough for me. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:19, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Should be the same like Image:Sarganserländer 1. Ausgabe DooFi.jpg, however MediaWiki can't create a Thumbnail. Petar Marjanovic 13:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. No one bothered to explain why this should be deleted, other than it can't be thumbnailed (minor detail) ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:21, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Should be the same like Image:Sarganserländer 1. Ausgabe DooFi.jpg, however MediaWiki can't create a Thumbnail. Petar Marjanovic 13:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Same as the other. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:22, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Old not closed request of 26. Mai 2007 by User:Gryffindor.
--GeorgHHtalk   21:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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Possibly unfree, image must have been taken in the 1970's which means copyright has not expired yet. --Gryffindor 19:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just keep it --81.68.125.220 18:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

keep it unless someone claims to have the copyright. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.85.191.233 (talk • contribs) 05:11, 3 Aug 2007 (UTC)

Given the political situation when and where it was taken, is this image actually copyright? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.183.147 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 8 Aug 2007 (UTC)

No, the Khmer Rouge have been deposed, and the author of this image declared it public domain. Nobody to contest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.24.110.77 (talk • contribs) 01:15, 3 Oct 2007 (UTC)

Clearly, image is a picture of a picture (looks like a photo of a museum exhibit). Copyright issues are moot. How does one remove this delete template? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.9.95 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 11 Nov 2007 (UTC)

"Possibly unfree" doesn't justify an automatic removal. -Pink Panther —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.190.175.82 (talk • contribs) 12:37, 12 Nov 2007 (UTC)


Deleted. Picture of a picture = derivative work. Copyright issues are never moot. Rocket000 18:29, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unclear license, author not given Omerzu 20:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:37, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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'self-made' seems wrong. abf /talk to me/ 12:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 05:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep and change the tag to {{PD-shape}}. Applying new colours to the Nordic cross, used since at least the 13th century, does not merit copyright protection. LX (talk, contribs) 21:08, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. self made seems possible. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:25, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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sorry, but it does not loock like a self-made Image. abf /talk to me/ 12:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm, why? Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 14:31, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Suspect user after 2 others of same subject being deleted. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Seems to be created from Image:Saudi Arabia - province locator template.png without proper attribution and done in paint with poor jpg compression. I don't think the color change is important but if it is it should be re-created with proper attribution and as a PNG. --gren 00:08, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The point is: The link-text on the labeled map can be more visible on the Grey back ground rather than the Green one. Ammar shaker 03:00, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Not Used. ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:28, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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This is an erotic image, not an educational one 87.4.223.104 23:41, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This image is not at all educational.

  • Keep - Why can't erotic images be educational? It may not be educational when it comes to human anatomy but it is educational when it comes to erotics. :) Otherwise, why don't you delete almost everything in the category: Pornography? Maybe just the the categorization is wrong, then we should just change the category, but as long as images like this one, this one or this one stay on Wikipedia, I see no reason to delete the image we are discussing here. --Botev 20:54, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. --- Anonymous DissidentTalk 06:48, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Because I'm the photographer and I changed the permissions at Flicks, it's not allowed to use my pictures without my acceptance and I don't want to publish my pics here. Thanks for your understanding! 213.47.87.123 20:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. I'll note that the CC license is not revocable and, therefore, that the reason provided by the nominator is bogus. However, there's still the issue that it's an identifiable person in a private place, and therefore, that we need permission from the subject. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 15:14, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No permission by author (photographer!), proposal suggests that this image under the given license can be used for Wikipedia purposes only. Polarlys 17:32, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The image is a photograph that was taken in the mirror, so Tila herself is the photographer. When I sent the request MySpace message, I included detailed verbatim that the image may be used in accordance to the Creative Commons, and she approved of it, as there is not indication that she said "Wikipedia only" --wL <speak·creatively> 20:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Taken using a mirror? Ah … Your request included a very limited view on what “modification” (“fix colors”) and “sharing” (“With the licence, it lets us use the pic on different language versions of the site, and on a print version of the encyclopedia when it drops.”) means. --Polarlys 20:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've told her what I would do with the picture, but the links to everything including the commons deed were included so she could read over it --wL <speak·creatively> 21:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I agree with WikiLeon, keep.

You should definetely keep this picture up there. Just because Tila took it herself, it doesn't mean anything. get over it and leave her alone.


Deleted. This could be a textbook example of a bad request for permission. Do not link people to licenses, give an insufficient description of the license and then think that is sufficient to secure permission. It is not. The odds of someone actually reading a license, even the simplified "human readable code" versions, are nearly nil, especially so of someone that does not have a lot of time in their hands. The author's attempt of explaining it went as follows:

With the licence, it lets us use the pic on different language versions of the site, and on a print version of the encyclopedia when it drops. It also allows us fix the colors of it so it doesn't look so bright.

And yet, this does not even hint at the fact that anyone must be able to do the same things -- and this is an absolute and non-negotiable requirement for the Commons and a fundamental part of the Creative Commons license in question. It suggests that "modification" is limited to adjusting the colour balance, when we require (again: it's a non-negotiable thing) that people be allowed to do anything to it. Her response, "yes you may use that pic", is entirely consistent with someone not reading the license and seeing "oh, someone wants to use my pic for their project, that's cool" -- when we are about a lot more than that.

We have a duty here, folks, to ensure that people are understanding what they are consenting to. That's essential if we're going to keep this project free for anyone to re-use, for any purpose, rather than merely being a host for images that the English Wikipedia can get away with using.

With that said, Tila seems pretty reasonable and I don't think it would be hard for someone with a MySpace account (I don't have one, and won't until Satan starts buying winter clothes) to try and secure a proper permission from her, since she seems quite reasonable. But please, don't follow Leon's example; make sure she knows what she's consenting to and get a proper license release, or even better (i.e. simpler and impossible to understand), see if you can get a public domain release. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 20:38, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unencyclopedic: commons is not a webhost for porn. Patstuart (talk) 20:33, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete Unencyclopedic image. Reverend X 20:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete Unencyclopedic, he's just pissing in an ocean of piss. ViperSnake151 21:04, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
*she's - Rocket000 04:03, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep Emmm.... where is the porn? I see some pubic hair, a wine glass and some cyrillic (?) letters Mutter Erde 21:28, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep Great I love it! the preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.37.128.63 (talk • contribs)
 Delete Out of scope. There's no need for "watersport images" --Herrick 08:25, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete Compleatly useless. Jorva 23:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep "Out of scope" is hyprocrisy since it illustrates urolagnia. "Porn" is also hypocrisy since there's nothing really pornographic on this particular picture. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 14:38, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
     Comment it's really difficult to find non-pornographic AND free-to-use illustrations of urolagnia. This picture is one of these rare possibilities. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 11:03, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
     Comment - 1) this image is not used in an article anyway, and strikes me as more of a personal collection, and 2) Image:Pissing-illustration.jpg works great, where as all this image shows is a person peeing in a glass and says nothing about the above condition. As far as I can tell, it's only pornographic. Patstuart (talk) 13:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
     Comment TwoWings, I notice you defend images like these a lot. Just keep in mind, nearly every image in the world illustrates something. That doesn't mean it's in our scope. Hardcore porn can illustrate an article on hardcore porn, but will it? Not for very long. Personally, this image isn't worth it. It's poor quality and doesn't effectively illustrate anything, yet it is the only pic we have of someone pissing in a glass (that I'm aware of), if that's important :/ - Rocket000 15:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I defend that kind of pictures when I think it deserve to be defended. I already voted "deleteé for other nude/"porn" pictures. And the reason why I defend those kind of images is because they are more likely to be deleted for personal non-neutral POV than any kind of pictures. So this lack of objectivity makes me want to defend them more than any other picture that will easily be defended by other people. I hate censorship and exagerated prudishness. So when it's not porn and when it has an encyclopedic value well yes I will defend it. And it's the case here: it's not porn as some say it and there's not much illustration for such subject. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 18:34, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I wasn't saying that like it's a bad thing. :) I hate censorship too, but there is a difference between deleting a picture for moral reasons (oh no, it's porn!) and deleting a picture because it's useless. The latter I'm completely ok with censoring. (That and censoring because of copyrights, of course.) And you're right, these types of images do get targeted more, but I that's not a bad thing either. We might not care about keeping a few useless sunset images, but we do mind keeping a few useless penis images (the consensus, I would say) . We got a reputation to consider. We don't want people coming to Commons to look at free porn and we don't want Commons to be an outlet for exhibitionism either. On the flip side, we're not an encyclopedia, and we're not here just to host encyclopedic content (Wikipedia's the only encyclopedia out of all of Wikimedia). The thing is most borderline "out of scope" images can usually find a use on userpages at the very least. However, content like this usually doesn't belong there.
I appreciate you defending images you think are useful and risk censorship over content, but most of these aren't being nominated simply because of the content. Honestly, I think the censorship is taking place with a completely different type of images. Images that offend people in other ways, such as racially or politically. - Rocket000 20:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I never accused you of accusing me! I was just pointing out problems and the reasons of my struggle! Anyway I can understand what you mean about tje useless penis images etc. But in this case, we "unfortunately" don't have other better quality illustration of the same thing. If we had it I would go for a deletion but it's not the case. What's more, this picture has some sense when it's taken with its "sequel" image, i.e. Image:Drinking urine.jpg. The illustration of urolagnia is the confrontation of these two images and those are not strictly pornographic. They're actually less pornographic than the third urolagnia image we have on Commons (Image:Pissing-illustration.jpg) but for some reason I've never understood there's never any problem with explicit drawn porn!!! Anyway as I said such subject doesn't have any better illustration on Commons so as long as we don't have any better one these two images are useful. (the drawing doesn't illustrate the same aspect of urolagnia) --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 08:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Rocket and TwoWings; on the topic of useless penis images. Have you ever counted the number of Commons' images showing female genitalia and compared that to the number of images showing male genitalia? I think there are quite a moderate number of male genitalia images, but we are compleatly overwhelmed with female genitalia images. Jorva 22:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I was just using that as an example, we may have more female genitalia, but I think male genitalia is uploaded more. People just have less of an issue with female nudity. Penis images are used in vandalism a lot too. - Rocket000 01:46, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep I still don't think this is a very useful image, however, it is the only non-illustrated image of the subject we have that actually shows the action. And as TwoWings pointed out, this is one part of the two photo series, when taken together effectively illustrates urolagnia (i.e. it's not just someone pissing in a glass). Is it pornographic? Maybe to some, but we have a lot of images that someone or other would consider porn (For example, I consider this, this, and this as porn.) - Rocket000 02:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep, per TwoWings. The fact that this may be considered pornographic is totally irrelevant. Oven Fresh 20:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. --O (висчвын) 03:48, 09 July 2008 (GMT)


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senseless stuff, isnt it? abf /talk to me/ 19:32, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Keep as per above discussion. —Giggy 00:58, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delete This is pretty base (in before "Commons is not censored"; we're also not meant to be a repository of random gross-out pictures). I don't see how this is even vaguely educational or useful. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 04:45, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep For 2 reasons. First because this has already been kept and there's no new argument for its deletion. Second because this picture makes sense as an illustration of urolagnia when it's seen with the other picture mentionned in the description. It's a kind of diptych and the two pictures only make sense when they're seen together. So you just have to read to understand. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 06:48, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep. You know what I don't like ? - clouds. Obsence things hanging in the sky. Lets delete all the images of them on commons. And images of fish as well - they aren't even wearing any clothes! We shouldn't be censored because otherwise we start picking up bias (anti-nudity, pro-nudity, pro-Judean people's liberation front, anti-People's Judean liberation front). The photograph is at least reasonably arty (in a Larry Clark kind of way). Commons shouldn't be censored (within the bounds of the law). And it damn well shouldn't be censored based on individual users tastes. Megapixie (talk) 22:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - watersports is a fairly well documented sexual fetish, and this illustrates it fine without any problems of identifiability. -mattbuck (Talk) 22:37, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Highly suspect license, considering the uploader. Dorftrottel 16:51, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


deleted, another guy who starts uploading images of various women, claiming to be the author. Kind of boring. --Polarlys 21:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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highly suspect license, considering the uploader. Dorftrottel 16:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


deleted, another guy who starts uploading images of various women, claiming to be the author. Kind of boring. --Polarlys 21:10, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Highly suspect license, judging by the uploader's contribs. Dorftrottel 16:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

keepI dont see a problem she shows haw to have sex and it is beatiful

keepThe license can be replased.I'dont see any real problem with this photo.By the way the wikipedia has few images of japanese woman.Vicond 04:54, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Deleting a picture just because the uploading user has had questionable contributions is not a valid excuse. The image should be compared based on its relative value, not the value of he who uploaded it. 70.179.52.204 06:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep no valid reason given to delete.86.145.1.102 12:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


deleted, another guy who starts uploading images of various women, claiming to be the author. Kind of boring. --Polarlys 21:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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New version here --Sebado 20:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where's the new version?--rimshottalk 17:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
At Image:JimenaBaron.png. --Vriullop 13:47, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Badseed talk 16:02, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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COPYRIGHT! Like other picture from this user, it is simply copied from a commercial website (www.djjv.de) --77.128.186.170 17:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - and all the other ones listed below. Patstuart (talk) 19:01, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I think the photo of Einstein is still coprihted 217.236.230.89 14:35, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete per nom. Derivative work. Durova 15:35, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is NOT derivative work, Mr. Einstein's portrait is circa 8% of whole picture and is partly and blurred view in the background. If this photo is not out of project scope - Keep Julo 16:55, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • But the uploader is in the United States where no freedom of panorama exists. Doesn't that create a derivative work issue? If not I'll change my vote, but that seems to be the issue here. Durova 00:43, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - Einstein is not the primary subject of this picture; in fact, he's hardly any of it at all. Patstuart (talk) 19:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Keep Per Patstuart. Some men on commons suffer from sth with a shape of a "copyright paranoja". If they only sniff a bit sth they think that can be "copyrighed" they become very excited. Strange and dangerous... Electron 06:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Paranoia maybe, but there's no FOP in the U.S. and never applies to indoor posters anyway. It doesn't matter if it only takes up 8%. What if the picture was of a really high resolution? It's the same as if I make a collage with a bunch of copyrighted photos each of them only taking up 5% of the entire picture. Is that ok? No. And "Einstein is not the primary subject" is a fair use rationale. - Rocket000 16:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - the only groups I have known to be sticky about this issue are low-budget media and MTV (I never understood that): 95% of the media seems to be under the assumption that such an image is not a copyright violation, and if there are any comparable cases where a court has decided in favor of a violation, please do cite that case here. In any case, these media that do censor such images often just blur it: were this not an orphaned and a not-useful-for-an-encyclopedia image, I might suggest doing that here. Patstuart (talk) 19:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • The same thought crossed my mind, but what would be the point? An out of scope argument could be made here: looks like a snapshot for a personal photo album; hard to imagine any WMF project use for it. Durova 03:00, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • I guess if a user wanted to use the blurred out photo on their userpage it would be in our scope. - Rocket000 07:05, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • The main theme of this photo is CD/DVD scratching (as the title is describing)... It can be useful when you want to ilustrate haw you can damage an CD/DVD (as it is use on pl-wiki)... Is it so hard to understand? Regards Electron 07:22, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
          • Ok, fair enough. I personally don't see it adding any value to the article, but I guess it's appropriate and free images make any article better :) - Rocket000 11:21, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
            • I haven't found the better free photo to ilustrate the problem. BTW: CDs (especially CD-ROMs) are very sensitive of scratching because there is only a very thin lacquer layer on the upper (usually printed) side. Under the lacquer layer is placed the spiral with dates. If you use a sharp ball-pen you can damage the dates... DVD disks are better shielded (the dates is placed in the middle of the gauge of a disk). Regards Electron 12:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • My Goodness, it is easy to edit this image and clear from it Einstein photo. Difficult? No. So why is it not edited??? 83.23.15.207 15:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Commons:De minimis? – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept, de minimis inclusion. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 13:05, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Adam Carr is probably not the author of this poster, so he cannot release it in the public domain 88.65.71.170 18:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - derivative work with no original source. Patstuart (talk) 18:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:49, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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error in svg: contains link to a local image Erik Baas 21:15, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, there is nothing to salvage here: the svg doesn't contain anything but the link to the local file. --rimshottalk 17:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
PS: an older revision does contain something. Let's wait for the author's input. PNG version is here, but doesn't have a license. JPEG version is here. --rimshottalk 17:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:49, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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(Old request of 29 June 2007) no source, uploaded from hr.wiki, where is wikipedia permission only. 29 June 2007 User:Suradnik13 --GeorgHHtalk   10:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:38, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Freebsd logo is free copyright? see [135]--Shizhao 13:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - no fair use on commons. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 05:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - See http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html, is clear, is necessary obtain permission to use the logo. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Guidelines.shtml are guidelines for obtain permission. Commons not have permission. Shooke 00:52, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. Shizhao 14:45, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Considering the fact that these are the only contributions ever by User:Alexkhandria2k, I find the simple assertion that the user holds the copyright to be doubtful, to say the least. Further considering that Commons has more than enough illustratory images of female genitals, I recommend deletion of all listed images. Dorftrottel 17:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I don't see any formal reason for this request. Missing the point of aesthetics - permission license is OK, description is OK. It might be educational, taking picture description into account (Asian type, 32 y. old). "More than enough illustratory images" is not a good reason, see how many dogs or cats or... sunsets we have in Commons... Julo 18:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • About the license: My concern is that this user uploaded these five images, then vanished forever. There's no editorial reputation to vouch for that claim of copyright ownership. Dorftrottel 20:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Did it ever occur to you that the person who contributed this registered a different name just for these pictures? Most people don't want their name stamped to a picture of their pussy on the internet. --71.191.135.128 06:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No, that did not occur to me. Dit it ever occur to you it would be possible to mail those pictures to another user in good standing, preferably an admin, and ask them to upload it for them? Dorftrottel 20:21, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Then someone knows. It's traceable. - Rocket000 04:13, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Traceable?? Also, this way, no one knows, which is no better. Dorftrottel 14:07, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, traceable. The best way to be anonymous is to be anonymous. :) - Rocket000 00:27, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This way, no one knows, which is no better. Dorftrottel 16:34, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In some Wikipedias users are openly encouraged to use sockpuppets for uploading of difficult images of any kind (e. g. in german Wikipedia). Here even EXIF data is intact, what's very untypical for copyright violations. Those EXIFs reveal a camera type that was very common for that period too. So there's no reason for copyright paranoia! And pictures of female genatalia with natural pubes are undoubtedly of encyclopaedical value nowadays. --Hemulen 14:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. Shizhao 14:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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There's no reason why this image would be free. The NATO flag is a copyrighted logo, and this one is probably that too. --25 February 2008 User:Ssolbergj Fixed request. -- Deadstar (msg) 16:39, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete per nom. This amounts to fair use. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 05:43, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete from Commons and re-upload to en.wiki et. al. for fair-use on specific articles. Andrwsc 00:45, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 KeepThe fact the flag of NATO is not free is not a sufficient reason to delete. Here are few other symbols that belong to NATO, and yet they are still free: Emblem of the NATO Response Force.svg and SFOR svg.png. --Oren neu dag (talk) 03:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 KeepPer Oren neu dag reasoning(Top Gun) 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 Keep. Two circles and some words. The placement of these elements don't seem to be original enough to merit copyright protection, as they do not pass the standard originality test of whether two people could conceivably have created the work independently. LX (talk, contribs) 20:43, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep Text logo.--Ahonc (talk) 09:44, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete Logo may be ineligible for copyright, but not its realization.--Trixt (talk) 22:19, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. --O (висчвын) 03:57, 09 July 2008 (GMT)

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I found the below comment on this image, and wanted to ensure it was dealt with.

Not sure the problem is for commons, or for Serbian wiki, but obviously IP user has an issue with it.

I don't think there is a problem: The description page states clearly where it was cropped from, user has released the original with a PD-self license (and thus allowing cropping etc.) and as far as I can see licensing is the same as on the original (but should perhaps be changed from PD-self to PD-User). ---- Deadstar (msg) 10:39, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PD-license accepts all derivative manipulations. Keep Julo 17:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WARNING!
Violation of the integrity right and other rights
The image of Sophie Marceau on this page is actually a mutilated and distorted fragment of my original work Image:Peter Shelokhonov with Sophie Marceau 1997.jpg The mutilated and distorted image of Sophie Marceau is wrongfully attributed to user Steveshelokhonov in Serbian Wikipedia. The mutilated and distorted image appeared in the article on Sophie Marceau in Serbian Wikipedia (revision Софи Марсо, at 22:22 on February 15, 2008).
NOTE: Article 6bis of the Berne Convention protects attribution and integrity, stating:
Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.
1. Use of the mutilated and distorted image Слика:Sophie Marceau2.jpg is in violation of the integrity right protecting the original image from mutilation and distortion. The integrity of my original work, even donated to public domain, is still under protection of both federal and Florida law, and other international laws.
2. The file in Serbian Wikipedia Слика:Sophie Marceau2.jpg is not my work, but it is a mutilated and distorted part of my original work Image:Peter Shelokhonov with Sophie Marceau 1997.jpg, and such mutilation and distortion was done without my prior knowledge.
3. The template from my original image Image:Peter Shelokhonov with Sophie Marceau 1997.jpg was improperly used with the mutilated image Слика:Sophie Marceau2.jpg in Serbian Wikipedia. Improper use of my template from my original image was done without my prior knowledge.
You may calmly consider helping Wikipedia by correcting the violations:
a) undo the misuse of my original licensing template that was improperly used with the mutilated and distorted image Слика:Sophie Marceau2.jpg in Serbian Wikipedia.
b) undo mutilation and distortion done to the original image Image:Peter Shelokhonov with Sophie Marceau 1997.jpg
Your cooperation is appreciated.User:Steveshelokhonov 01:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
INFORMATION BELOW THIS LINE IS WRONG
(on image page - information on image was here)
The above was added on 28 February 2008 by User:130.166.33.224
Keep The work should be properly attributed, but ultimately when you release a work under the PD tag, you are granting "anyone the right to use this work for any purpose". All free wiki images must permit modification. Megapixie 08:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Dear fellow Wikipedians,

I see your votes, and I respect your rights to making your point. However, please consider my position based on the law, common sense and mutual respect.

My own original work is the image of Sophie Marceau with my father, Petr Shelokhonov.Image:Peter Shelokhonov with Sophie Marceau 1997.jpg I took the photo after the actors finished filming a scene for Anna Karenina and made themselves available for photographers. Sophie Marceau was very nice, graceous and generous, she projected a radiant ambience and made people around her very happy. My father brought me to the filming location and introduced me to Sophie Marceau, and I was impressed with the beauty, talent, and professionalism of this fine actress. My father, Petr Shelokhonov, died in 1999, and I decided to give his original images of my own work, including this one, to Wikipedia, and to public domain. However, the integrity of my own work remains under protection of international laws that are honored by Wikipedia policy.

I made the above image to document the meeting and work of two film actors, Sophie Marceau and my father, Petr Shelokhonov.

Article 6bis of the Berne Convention protects attribution and integrity, stating: Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.

I donated my original image to Wikipedia with understanding that this community respects my objection to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to honor and reputation of my late father, Petr Shelokhonov.

My message to the Serbian Wikipedia users, regarding the distorted image, was treated with good understanding, and my request to return to using my original image was honored.

It is not only the legal issue of integrity and attribution, but also a matter of common sense, mutual respect and reputation regarding all parties involved.

Your cooperation is highly appreciated. Steveshelokhonov 10:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep both or Delete both - no middle ground. Commons, wikipedia, etc = free use + free modification. An image that we can't modify, isn't a free image, and should be deleted (as should any image whose terms of use imply no modification). Keep all on the grounds that the user released modification rights to the image or delete all on the grounds the user doesn't understand the commons concept of "free". I'm happy with either outcome. Megapixie 15:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Support Either original image is free and may be freerly modified OR it's not free and should be deleted. This modification of original image is not prejudicial to honor or reputation in any way. My opinion is to Keep. A.J. 20:36, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Support The same oppinion here. When the original is FREE so it could be changed. Keep or delete both.--Avron 14:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strongly Oppose mutilation of the original image violating integrity rights and personal rights of my late father, actor Petr Shelokhonov.

I, Steveshelokhonov, did not mutilate my own original work, but some Wikipedian mutilated my original work, so my late father, actor Petr Shelokhonov, is now missing.

Article 6bis of the Berne Convention protects attribution and integrity, stating: Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work.

Here the mutilation was done against the integrity rights and personal rights, that are protected by the Bern convention and international laws.

Me and my mother are shocked by such mutilation of the image of my father, Petr Shelokhonov, in Wikipedia.

We respect fellow users in Serbian Wikipedia who agreed to use my original image keeping its integrity.

Personal rights and integrity rights should be honored, and violations should be deleted! Steveshelokhonov 23:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As I understand, the relatively new wikipedian, Steveshelokhonov, did not realized all the implications of putting the {{PD}} on the original image. I do not think we should exploit the honest mistake of the user. I suggest to change the copyright tag on the original image Image:Peter Shelokhonov with Sophie Marceau 1997.jpg from PD-self to something like {{Copyrighted free use provided that|Any derivative work should not crop out, or otherwise obscure faces of Peter Shelokhonov and Sophie Marceau}}. I suggest to Steve to think for awile, maybe consult with his lawyer and formulate exactly what is not allowed to do in the derivative works to the image. Anyway I have put a personality warning there informing people that by cropping out people from the image they violate the explicit wish of the author and also may infringe his legal rights. Regarding the Image:Sophie Marceau2.jpg I think that keeping it is unethical (and maybe even illegal - the personality rights are qite complicated) and, thus, should be deleted Alex Bakharev 01:35, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I've added Image:Peter Shelokhonov with Sophie Marceau 1997.jpg to the request. Since we either keep both or delete both. Megapixie 02:41, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment The suggested "provided that" message is against Commons policy. A.J. 07:50, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Against policy per Commons:Project scope "... commercial use and publication of derivative work is allowed." Megapixie 07:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Steveshelokhonov is trying to persuade that cropping image is violation of authors moral righs or personal rights of persons on the photo: that's not the case. Basing on this photo, how anyone possibly could say anything wrong: derogatory or against honor or reputation of the author, his father or Sophie Maceau? No one also modified original image: it's kept as the author published it. This can be dangerous precendece as people may try to force Commons to keep their {{watermark}}s on similar basis. A.J. 07:50, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In my country copyright law, author may request to remove his credit from modified work when he/she does not accept modification, even when copyright was transfered. What about US law? A.J. 07:59, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have an E-mail exchange with Steve and he would rather delete both images, the original one and the modified one. It looks like when he has labeled his image as PD he did not realized the image can be edited in such a drastic way. I suggest to follow his wish and delete both images Alex Bakharev 00:37, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment ‘’’Delete both images to end the problem. I agree with several Wikipedians who directly and via e-mail gave me advice and recommendation: Request to delete BOTH original photo and it's fragment. Steveshelokhonov 21:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both. I agree with the building consensus above of the proposal by Megapixie. It is clear that the author never intended to release the original image into the public domain (did it by honest mistake). Since he chooses the images deleted, we should respect it. Steve then is free to upload his image under a different licence. (I also had a brief email exchange with Steve.) Yury Petrachenko 05:23, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment What about other uploads then? I think we should require OTRS permission for them. A.J. 10:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Alex B. appears to be in contact with him - Alex B. could you confirm that he understands that the remaining images may be modified and used commercially. Additionally he needs to understand that this is irrevocable (we're being nice/understanding this time). If he's not comfortable with that then we should delete the lot. Megapixie 14:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hesitant Delete In cases like this, I always have an urge to keep the images to make a point... but that's not a good reason. Because of Steveshelokhonov's obvious misunderstanding of the public domain, moral rights, and personality rights, I don't think we can honestly say these images were meant to be released as PD. It seems a better license would be CC-BY-ND (which isn't allowed on Commons). If Steveshelokhonov has a problem with a little cropping, I would hate to see what would happen if this image was really manipulated. Image:Peter Shelokhonov with Sophie Marceau 1997.jpg should never have been uploaded to Commons. And respect is good.- Rocket000 11:41, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment

Thank you, everyone, for this thoughtful, respectful and careful dicussion. I learned something from this mistake, and I am also discussing the whole story with specialists outside Wiki. Integrity of images is the key issue here; if two figures may be separated by anyone altering the original image, that means all group portraits in Wikipedia are at risk.

The CC-BY-ND license is used in many images, but how safe those images are? Is it safe to donate images under CC-BY-ND license without worrying about the risk of alteration of images by other users? Steveshelokhonov 23:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Both deleted, please understand what free content licensing means before you upload files here :/ --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 08:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Source points to Norwegian wiki, which now points back here. Can someone check the info there as uploader has changed vital details (like who took the image) on other images he transwikied from this band.He also states "© William D. Lollar" so perhaps it is copyrighted? ---- Deadstar (msg) 11:00, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. --Kjetil_r 17:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No source, wrong license. All very doubtful. ALE! ¿…? 08:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Source is given: Image:Eichmann trial news story.ogg. --GeorgHHtalk   08:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I think the same. Source is given. It's a screenshot of the video. Körnerbrötchen » 11:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment The license of the source video is very doubtful as well. I have marked it as missing essential source information. --Rosenzweig 23:39, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It seems the video is PD because Universal put their entire newsreels in the public domain. So this image then is PD, too, and we should Keep it. --Rosenzweig 01:10, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. ShakataGaNai Talk 19:36, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Out of scope, unused personal image with a lot of recognisable people + their names in the description. -- Deadstar (msg) 14:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


Deleted. Out of scope personal image. Any personal image can be used to illustrate something, but that is not always a reason to keep. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Out of scope -- Deadstar (msg) 14:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Out of scope personal image. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Very low quality image, very not sharp (the bird is not identificable by that image), there are already much better images of Turdus Merula, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 14:59, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Too poor quality to be of any use. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:55, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Very low quality image, very not sharp (the bird is not identificable by that image), there are already much better images of Phalacrocorax carbo, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 15:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Too poor quality to be of any use. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:55, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Very low quality image, very not sharp (the bird is not identificable by that image), there are already much better images of Phalacrocorax carbo, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 15:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Too poor quality to be of any use. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:56, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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unfree shampoo bottle Samuell 03:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How, exactly, is it unfree? It is part of the trade dress of a trademarked shampoo bottle and I will certainly be on the safe side and tag it {{Trademark}} if consensus dictates. Neither the text on the bottle, nor its color or font is eligible for copyright, and more so as sentence fragments containing no unusual words nor an advertising slogan. If that drop is copyrighted, then we can crop it out but it does not dominate the image. But I really don't see where copyright becomes a problem ... I carefully avoided the product logo. Daniel Case 04:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Kept. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:39, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No checkable source, no indication for PD. GeorgHHtalk   09:12, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:13, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:13, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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No checkable source, no indication for PD. GeorgHHtalk   09:14, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Unknown original author and source, no indication for PD. GeorgHHtalk   08:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted. Approximately four months at deletion review with no source or supported PD rationale having come forth. Author and/or date of publication is not know. Author may be known to someone (just not to us), which precludes claim of {{Anonymous work}} in the absence of a sourced assertion of anonymous publication. {{PD-Japan-oldphoto}} relies on publication conditions; again, we have no date of first publication to support that license. ЭLСОВВОLД talk 15:31, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Very low quality image, very not sharp (the bird is not identificable by that image), there are already much better images of Phalacrocorax carbo, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 15:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep. Not the best photo, but I'd put that down as a cormorant even without reading the description. It's the only image in the category to show a single bird in a relatively isolated nest. Deleting doesn't save any disk space either, so no harm in keeping it around. LX (talk, contribs) 20:49, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Kameraad Pjotr 18:57, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Are you painter? EugeneZelenko 16:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Vexcom 20:05, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Could you please send then a permission to OTRS? Thank you! --ALE! ¿…? 14:49, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. After a brief search, no valid OTRS permission has been found.--Trixt (talk) 22:07, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright obviously by Johnny Cash Port(u*o)s 23:03, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, I aksed at Commons:Questions, and they explained me like this: a traditional tune, the song is in the PD, but Cash recorded it, he has a "Leistungsschutz" (at the moment, I don't know how it's called in english), which lasted fifty years, these fifty years are now over, so this file is PD. Waylon 07:16, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure if you could apply that to American works. -Nard 10:24, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep Pre-1972 audio recordings in the US are a bit of a legal muddle. US copyright law did not cover them, and they were protected by state law. In most cases it doesn't make a difference (you write the score, it is protected by copyright, the recording is a derivative work of the score, covered by the same copyright). I do believe in a case where simply the recording is protected and not the score state law would apply. I'm going to retag as {{PD-US-record}}. Furthermore, this was recorded in TN by a TN resident for a TN label (Sun Studio) and TN no longer recognizes its common-law copyright (see http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/OPINIONS/tca/PDF/011/CorpCater.pdf - "state common-law actions for copyright infringement no longer exist."-Nard 16:06, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. N seems to have the information ShakataGaNai ^_^ 06:30, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Dec. CMC Nº 17/02