Commons:Deletion requests/File:Audrey mclaughlin HCC.jpg
The Canadian House of Commons does not release content under the Creative Commons. 117Avenue (talk) 01:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
- Delete. Per nomination. No link to a source showing evidence that this photo is in the public domain. -- Asclepias (talk) 03:05, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
- Don't Delete'. This photograph appears to be in the public domain. I am not sure how you find photos of important people in the public domain. Do they get stamped "public domain" some how? It is being used widely on the web. I can't figure out Wikipedia's system to uploading photos. But I can guarantee that no one will object to the use of this photo. Perhaps someone at Wikipedia should use some common sense and judgment to allow this. The alternative is to have no photo of Ms. Mclaughlin, who was the first woman leader of a political party in the Parliament of Canada. AMSask (talk) 18:49, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
The use of this photo also qualifies as fair use for the following reasons:
1. it is a historically significant photo of a famous individual; 2. it is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality); 3. the photo is only being used for informational purposes; 4. and the photo does not limit the potential marketing of these images by its copyright holder.AMSask (talk) 04:36, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Comment Hello, AMSask. Images of public figures/politicians are not automatically within the public domain. They can be copyrighted like any other image. Images of the Government of Canada are almost always copyrighted as well (it's called Crown Copyright).Here on the Commons, only public domain or freely licensed images may be uploaded. See Commons:Licensing for more information. The objective is to create a repository of images and other media files that can be used by anyone, anytime, for any purpose.
The only way to find public domain/freely licenses images of public figures on the web is to find images that are explicitly marked as being public domain or released under a license acceptable on the Commons (again, see Commons:Licensing for more details). You need to provide a link to the site in the image description of any such uploaded image so that other Commons users can verify the status of the image. If there is no explicit status/license information, we assume that the image is copyrighted, its use is restricted, and it is thus not permitted on the Commons. The alternative is to ask the copyright owner if they would be willing to freely license the image and to send an email to the Commons with a declaration to that effect. Details of that process are at COM:OTRS.
Commons does not accept "fair use" images. Some Wikipedia projects, including the English-language Wikipedia, do allow images to be uploaded locally using a fair use rationale in a very limited set of circumstances. Typically, photos of persons still living are not accepted over at en.wp on a fair use basis; because the person is still alive, it is still theoretically possible to create a free equivalent image of that person. There are some exceptions to this rule. You may want to consider asking the question at en:Wikipedia talk:Non-free content, and if the response if favourable, then uploading this image locally over at en.wp on a fair use basis. Hope that helps. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:04, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Deleted. Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 14:21, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
