Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with insource:"free-photos-242387"

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Files found with Special:Search/insource:"free-photos-242387"

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"More free photos from thousands of users."

Unknown source, unknown author. Pinging @Leoboudv.

- Alexis Jazz ping plz 13:23, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The user profile states these were mirrored from unsplash. Using this information I was able to locate the original author of File:Trowel.jpg: https://unsplash.com/photos/BduDcrySLKM
However it's unclear to me whether the unsplash license is allowed here. As far as I can tell the unsplash license is essentially pd... except it specifies that you can't mirror them en masse for a competing service; which seems to me to be exactly what the user free-photos-242387 has done on pixabay :/. I'll update Trowel.jpg but if unsplash license aren't allowed on commons then it should be deleted. However it seems to be okay because there's a category for it? Category:Images_from_Unsplash. Mvolz (talk) 15:23, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
A ha. Unsplash was PD before 2017: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unsplash_images_uploaded_from_other_sites. So Trowel is okay because it was uploaded November 25, 2014. The other ones will may may need to be checked for this. Mvolz (talk) 15:34, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I had searched for File:Blue BMW car parked on side of street.jpg, but it's so widely spread I couldn't track down the source. According to https://www.vice.com/de_ch/article/mv4mev/es-ist-armselig-dass-nun-autos-vaeter-dazu-bringen-sollen-unterhalt-zu-zahlen it's from Pexels, but I couldn't find it there. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 15:40, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In that case it's almost certainly PD? The funny thing with PD is strictly speaking no attribution is required, therefore we technically don't need an author or a source, although of course it's good to have so we can confident it is PD. Mvolz (talk) 15:45, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Mvolz: per Commons policy (which isn't law), we generally do need to attribute content, even if it's PD. Except when the work is so old the copyright (almost) certainly has expired (including the case of copyright having expired due to the author being unknown), or the work is too simple for copyright protection. All these are likely PD, but without a proper source we'd have to take "free-photos-242387"'s word for it. https://www.thedailybeast.com/cool-ride-what-top-entertainers-cars-tell-us-about-them attributed it to Zan Ilic, which doesn't appear to be the source. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 15:59, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I found sources for two more, the jellyfish one seems to not be uploaded by original author, but the snowy mountain one seems legit; the author claims to be a photographer located in France, all the photos are geotagged somewhere in France. I'll update the metadata for mountain one. Mvolz (talk) 10:06, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination, but kept the two ID'd by Mvolz. --Storkk (talk) 10:50, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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