Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with "Courtesy of General Dynamics"

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Files found with Special:Search/"Courtesy of General Dynamics"

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Suspected copyright violations. These photos are all using some variant of {{PD-USGov}}, which indicates that photos taken by US Government employees as part of their duties are automatically Public Domain. The files nominated, however, all state some variant of "Courtesy of General Dynamics" or its subsidiaries like Bath Iron Works, which is a defense contractor; this language is typically used when the contractor provides the file to the US Navy. Since the photos were not taken by US Government employees, we need evidence that the photographer or copyright holder (General Dynamics) released the photos under a free license, or provided permission to the US Government to do so.

Some photos credit a photographer's name, none of which seem to be US military, e.g. Stephen Whelen (unable to find any info) or Dennis Griggs (according to [1] was in the Navy decades before these photos, but has more recently been a photographer contractor for General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works).

I've excluded similarly-tagged files A B C and D as they explicitly state something like "U.S. Navy Photographer, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works", I think these are not as certain as the files nominated so need further investigation.

Consigned (talk) 17:13, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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