Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with "with an active link required"

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Useful stock photos of topical and social media subjects which all say in their descriptions that an "active link" is required, to one of a few "...catalog.com" URLs, e.g.:-

Credit s.quotecatalog.com/quotes/inspirational with an active link required. Images are free for usage on websites (even websites with ads) if you credit "source" with an active link to s.quotecatalog.com/quotes/inspirational.

Saying that an image cannot be used if it lacks an "active link" (which I assume is meant to mean that the credited URL can be clicked to be taken to that website) would preclude use in print and some video contexts, or on websites that don't support active linking, so this seems to go against COM:LICENSING.

Belbury (talk) 17:51, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete per my comments on VP. Even if it weren't for the outright impossibility of fulfilling this request in print media, any conditions on reuse beyond the requirements of the Creative Commons license render a work non-free. Omphalographer (talk) 19:27, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My question is, do these exaggerated conditions make null and void the terms of the more free license? I am not sure that is the case. Bedivere (talk) 21:31, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete Per nomination. We must close the door to Copyleft Trolling. SV1XV (talk) 08:27, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment not really convinced by this, see Commons:Village pump/Copyright#CC licensing "with an active link required" Enhancing999 (talk) 13:52, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep as the text in question does not form part of the CC licence (the images are, in effect, dual licensed). Or are we going to delete all CC 2.0 licensed images, which say "You must provide a link to the license..."? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't form part of the licence but could it not be argued that the Flickr user was trying to craft their own homebrew licence when filling out Flickr's submission process? The "required" wording would suggest that they expected it to apply and be compulsory (or, I suppose, that they cynically knew that it didn't but hoped that some downstream users of the image might not know any better). Belbury (talk) 11:26, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It clearly could be so argued, as that is what, in effect, you did in your nomination. It is my argument (and that of others, below) that you were wrong to do so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep as @Pigsonthewing says, any condition provided for outside of the license is not part of the license and does not constitute an additional restriction. This is explicitly provided for in the license text: "This License constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Work licensed here. There are no understandings, agreements or representations with respect to the Work not specified here.". D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 02:46, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep per @Pigsonthewing, @D. Benjamin Miller, @King of Hearts illumination of @Bedivere's question. -- Ooligan (talk) 02:41, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Commons has files that require links beyond a link to the CC license and that can be used in print media, but such files might get a watermark-banner smacked on them. File:Mellencamp 354.jpg for example. Nakonana (talk) 16:19, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep but make that URL into the attribution in the CC license. E.g. {{cc-by-2.0|attribution=https://s.quotecatalog.com/quotes/inspirational}}. I would only see a need to go further than that if there were evidence that they were threatening legal action or demanding royalties when this was not an "active" link. - Jmabel ! talk 17:09, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep Although weakly since I feel like the files are questionably educational. It at least doesn't seem like the licensing thing is an issue though. --Adamant1 (talk) 22:08, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: per D. Benjamin Miller. --IronGargoyle (talk) 16:32, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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