Commons:Deletion requests/File:10 July 2003 1020UTC landspout near Viola.jpg

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File:10 July 2003 1020UTC landspout near Viola.jpg

This image was previously published on a National Weather Service website, but the link is now dead and it was never archived by the Internet Archive.[1]

However, the uploader to the Commons noted that the file was credited "Sedgwick County Emergency Management". Agencies of the Kansas state government can hold copyrights over their materials,[2] so I contacted them.

In this case they confirmed for me:

• they supplied this image to the NWS
• it was not taken by a County employee, it was supplied to EM by one of their volunteers (whom they did not name)

I forwarded this advice to the VRT. (ticket:2024092110008687)

With no evidence that its creator released it into the public domain, and no way to contact them, we need to delete this as a precaution under COM:PRP, at least until a creator can be identified and contacted to negotiate a release into the public domain or under a free license.

If no creator is ever identified, it will pass into the public domain as an orphan work in 2124. (It isn't clear to me whether the EM knows the name of the volunteer; "identified" here means identified at all, not just by us).

Closing admins should familiarise themselves with the evidence and discussions at this RfC when closing this request.

Rlandmann (talk) 23:27, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

 Delete per above. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 01:35, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

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Deleted: per nomination. --Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:56, 5 November 2024 (UTC)