Commons:Deletion requests/File:Northwestern Compass Yearbook.jpg
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Yearbook cover, and so does not appear to be the work of the uploader. CT Cooper · talk 14:22, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
- Again, Baltimore City College—a featured school article on Wikipedia—has the exact same photo of their official yearbook (The Green Bag) on their article. That means there's no issues with the photo I took of a Northwestern yearbook I own. You can't copyright a yearbook that is available for purchase and that you are featured in. --Maryland Pride (talk) 20:09, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
- The fact you own the copy of the yearbook used is irrelevant - ownership of physical property and ownership of intellectual property often overlap but are different things. If someone buys a copy of a book, a film, a video game e.t.c. they do not automatically become the copyright holder of that work, and do not gain the freedom to distribute or sell what they have brought, because the intellectual property rights remain with the author(s)/developer(s)/publisher(s) - and note there is no longer a legal requirement for warnings, all rights reserved notices to be displayed on such works for such rights to be retained. I have responded to the rest of your points at Commons:Deletion requests/File:The Paw Print - Northwestern High School.png (explaining why such images are present on the English Wikipedia) and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Northwestern HS Seal.jpg (explaining the concept of a derivative work). CT Cooper · talk 22:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Deleted: FASTILY (TALK) 00:37, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
