Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Chapmanville, West Virginia.png
While works of the federal government are presumed in the public domain under {{PD-US-Gov}} this does not extend to works of the several sovereign states. West Virginia does not release its intellectual property into the public domain by statute and I do not see any explicit release of this flag into the public domain at the source. As such, I propose that this image be deleted as a copyright violation. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 04:10, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Delete: In addition to this flag not really being {{PD-USGov}} per en:WP:PD#US government works, it also seems to be a derivative work that incorporates photos that may separately be still under copyright protection of their own accord independent of the copyright status of the flag. This user's uploads previously were asked about at Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2022/09#Municipal flags and a more thorough examination of them may be needed because the user seems to be misunderstanding some things about COM:L. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:36, 22 September 2022 (UTC)- Delete Delete it and reupload it to the main Wikipedia page. Man, I had warned this user about these copyrighted flags. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 19:42, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Comment as nom. The uploader has changed the claimed license to {{Pd-ineligible}}. There is very clearly original authorship in the flag; the selection of the phorographs which are compiled shows original authorship in their arrangement and is likely copyrightable as a collective work. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 20:42, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- Are you going to phone or email the town about the flag? SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 21:15, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not able to find the flag on the town website, so I'm a bit skeptical that this is the town's actual flag. I can try to dig a bit more into this. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 21:20, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- It looks like a sporting team flag to me unless it honors the town's history of sports. If you cannot find it, contact the town. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 23:19, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- You, the uploader, or anyone else is free to try contacting the town. But note that while others are often kind enough to help on Commons, it is the responsibility of the uploader to show what they upload is free licensed. If no proof of free license for both all the individual photos and the composition as a whole, Delete. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 17:32, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
- You, the uploader, or anyone else is free to try contacting the town. But note that while others are often kind enough to help on Commons, it is the responsibility of the uploader to show what they upload is free licensed. If no proof of free license for both all the individual photos and the composition as a whole,
- It looks like a sporting team flag to me unless it honors the town's history of sports. If you cannot find it, contact the town. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 23:19, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not able to find the flag on the town website, so I'm a bit skeptical that this is the town's actual flag. I can try to dig a bit more into this. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 21:20, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- Are you going to phone or email the town about the flag? SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 21:15, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
- Comment I note that the facebook link for source doesn't work. I didn't find that link, but a post about the flag is here on the facebook page for the "The Town of Chapmanville Beautification Commitee". It states "The Town of Chapmanville Flag contest that was hosted by The Chapmanville Beautification Committee and The Town of Chapmanville was Harlea Abraham". So the flag is a recent creation, author is Harlea Abraham. Presumably the author maintains rights, and even if they transferred those rights to either the Beautification Committee or the town government, there is no reason to think this is free licensed. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 17:41, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
Deleted: With more consideration of above, deleted, from all indications this is NOT free licensed. Three different licenses have been slapped on to this image, all of which were provably false - if the flag "contains no original authorship" as the most recent tag claimed, the author would not have been awarded a prize at a public ceremony. --Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 17:47, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
