Commons:Deletion requests/File:DanaGioiaNEAchairman.jpg
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This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.
Being published on a government website does not mean the photo was created by the government. There is no evidence that the photographer is/was an employee of the US Federal Government or that a work for hire exists. The photographer may just as well have been an independent contractor without a work-for-hire contract. The source site does not provide any information on the photographer. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:45, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Comment discussed here for further background. Warfieldian (talk) 15:57, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Keep No, but most often the official photographs are. That is a reasonable assumption. The site notice mentions the possibility of other authors, but they would normally be named. We have never held most USGov websites to a standard of having to name the individual photographer; the usual assumption is that things are public domain unless a specific credit is there. Just like we assume that an image on a company's website belongs to that company -- usually individual employees are not named. Carl Lindberg (talk) 05:22, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Kept. Jcb (talk) 19:47, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
