Commons:Deletion requests/File:余樹江肖像.png
It's likely a copyright violation.
This photograph was first seen in the "author information" section from a 1974 paper.[1] The uploader claims that it belongs to the Public Domain due to pre-1978 publication without a copyright notice for the photograph. I disagree with this claim - the publication in question was a paper journal, the existence of a copyright notice is determined by its copyright page. If we inspect the copyright page of IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Volume: 21, Issue: 1, February 1974), a clear copyright notice exists at the beginning of the journal:
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE is published bimonthly by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [...] Copyright 1974 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Printed in U.S.A. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional mailing offices.[2]
Thus, I believe it can be implied that everything contained in this issue of the journal is copyrighted by IEEE unless proven otherwise. Since it was published before 1978 but with a copyright notice, it's copyrighted for 95 years after its first publication. Thus, it's currently still copyrighted.
Furthermore, the research paper was supported by the U.S. Government, the paper said:
Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission during summer employment at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
Hence, there's a possible argument that it's US government work in public domain. Unfortunately, I believe that Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is an autonomous institution managed by The Regents of the University of California. It accepts research grants from the US government, but technically it's only a contractor, not a government institution per se.[1]
Furthermore, the authorship information attached to the file is incorrect, it currently says "University of Florida", but in this paper, the author's communication address was shown to be
Permanent address: Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.[1]
Either University of California or Kansas State University would make sense, but not University of Florida. In conclusion, I believe unless there's evidence to the contrary, this photograph is still copyrighted, non-free material in violation of Wikimedia Commons's copyright policy, and thus should be deleted. Bieraaa (talk) 20:15, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. —Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:54, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- ↑ a b c (February 1974). "A Closed-Form Expression for the Energy Dissipation in a Low-Loss Transmission Line". IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 21 (1): 1006-1008. DOI:10.1109/TNS.1974.4327594.
- ↑ (February 1974). "Copyright Page". IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 21 (1): c2. DOI:10.1109/TNS.1974.4327432.
