Commons:Deletion requests/File:Victory at Sea - title card.jpg

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File:Victory at Sea - title card.jpg

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The uploader hasn't provided any evidence that the National Broadcasting Corporation indeed has released this document to the public domain. There are lots of renewal registrations for "Victory at Sea", so this is probably covered by one of those. Stefan4 (talk) 10:48, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia article claims it's public domain but there's no reference. (I added "citation needed") It's listed here and there as public domain but again, nothing definitive. I did find this discussion however at archive.org where copies of the film are available. I'm not arguing one way or another for now... I'm simply commenting. – JBarta (talk) 14:21, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A search for "Victory at Sea" at www.copyright.gov gives me a list of 170 different kinds of registrations. For example, RE0000088692 appears to cover the music in the first episode. If the broadcasting company somehow forgot to renew this image or if it was for some reason renewed incorrectly, then it's fine, but it seems a bit scary to assume this since there are so many different registrations which seem to cover many different things. --Stefan4 (talk) 14:33, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep The license as given needs a source; that claims the copyright was otherwise valid but NBC explicitly has relinquished their rights. I think it's PD-US-not_renewed though; a renewal would be required and I see none on copyright.gov (and the records should be there). You can restrict the query for dates before 1954 (since the renewals come tagged with their original date); the music has plainly been renewed but I don't see any renewals on the visual TV episode itself. I would not distribute copies of the entire episode (due to the contained music) but I don't see an issue with the screenshot. It's possible we are missing something but given the ease of searching, it should be easy to disprove the license by giving a renewal number. I couldn't find any. Carl Lindberg (talk) 15:53, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: per Carl .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 16:51, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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