Commons:Deletion requests/File:March 2, 2012 Henryville, Indiana Tornado.jpg

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File:March 2, 2012 Henryville, Indiana Tornado.jpg

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This file is sourced to a National Weather Service website.

Such sites host a mixture of content created by the US federal government (public domain) and content created by businesses and private individuals (a wide variety of free and unfree licenses).

In the absence of an explicit and proximate copyright statement, the only way we can know with any certainty whether an image supplied to the NWS by a third party is free or not is to approach its creator and ask. (And the answer has been "no" in almost every case, as documented here).

Unfortunately, the context in which the NWS published this image (and any attributions) have not been archived. The uploader to the Commons did note the source as TV station WDRB.

I have reached out to WDRB who have identified this as a viewer-submitted image to which they do not own the rights and cannot comment on its licensing. I have forwarded this response to the VRT (ticket:2024092010006931)

the NWS has no record of where they obtained this image, and have published it as "photographer unknown"[1]

Because neither we, nor WDRB, can verify that it is (or was ever) available under a free license, we must delete as a precaution unless the precise source and evidence of permission can be found.

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

Rlandmann (talk) 14:57, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete per @Rlandmann Updating to  Neutral per below. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 16:27, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wait a minute. @Rlandmann: Don’t that look like a lot like this CC-BY licensed video? Looks like it was at the same location and probably the same person who took it. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 05:08, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Don’t know who the author is; all I have figured out is that the video (which appears to be the same person who presumably took the picture) is this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/predatorylizard Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 05:10, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok; it doesn’t look quite like it. Ignore my strike out and my ping. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 05:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, very clearly not a screenshot from that video. The fence isn't the same, the landmarks aren't the same, and this image appears to have been natively portrait-mode, not cropped from that landscape-mode video. And that's before we talk about colour and focus. --Rlandmann (talk) 07:18, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would also like to point out that this also looks familiar to a video that the NWS labeled “not for rebroadcast” Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 23:36, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have a link for that one please? --Rlandmann (talk) 04:01, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Krd: Did you mean to close this? Ixfd64 (talk) 16:08, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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