Commons:Deletion requests/File:RoyCooper2019.png

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File:RoyCooper2019.png

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This photograph was taken by U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell, who appears to be a member of the North Carolina National Guard. If I recall correctly, works created by these sorts of individuals are not automatically in the public domain unless the person taking it is federalized at the time of the photo being taken, so this photograph may well be copyrighted as the photo's of a governor during a speech. The flickr source releases this photo only under CC-BY-ND, which is incompatible with the licensing policy. As such, I'm nominating this for deletion under the precautionary principle, as there is significant doubt as to the file's freedom. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 01:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep I think this is a case of the people managing the Flickr account simply not selecting the correct license. It's not unusual for a federal government agency to publish images with copyright notices restricting usage, even if they're superseded by their ineligibility for copyright. It looks like all images on this Flickr account have ND licenses and this one, like the others, has a Commons:VIRIN, which to me indicates that it's archived and managed by the Department of Defense as a photograph taken by a National Guard staffer during the course of their duties.
That said, the PNG format doesn't play well with Wikipedia and flattens JPEGs, so I'll upload a JPEG version cropped from the original. Adeletron 3030 (talk) 15:39, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Changing to  Weak delete after uploading a higher-res version in the original file format. Adeletron 3030 (talk) 16:25, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: Unsued low res image, replaced by File:Roy Cooper 2019 (cropped).jpg. --Wdwd (talk) 13:31, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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