Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Steam (software)

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Files in Category:Steam (software)

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Trade (talk) 15:04, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please elaborate how these files are breaking any copyright rules. I took these pictures and they do not violate any copyright laws or rules to the best of my knowledge. ThatGerman (talk) 16:03, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ThatGerman: are you saying that, for example, in File:Steam China Release Key Note Wallpaper Engine 2.jpg the image of the mountain visible on the screen is one that you created? Or that for some reason it is in the public domain? or what? - Jmabel ! talk 06:50, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
First of all, there is no need for a passive-aggressive tone, I am acting in good-faith and I am fairly aware of Wikimedia Commons' rules even though they can be a bit complicated dwhen it comes to nuances like this. The image you are referring to is indeed in the public domain, the original author made it free-to-use without the necessity to cite a source. Here's the original source of the image:
https://www.pexels.com/photo/lake-and-green-mountain-448751/
Besides this, it does not explain why all the other images were marked for deletion. I was at the event myself, I was granted the right to share the photos publicly without limitations and this is not a matter of "fair-use" or similar trickery. ThatGerman (talk) 13:39, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's the copyright of the wallpapers that i am concerned about Trade (talk) 15:47, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Let me provide some background: I was in attendance of the "Steam China" release event in 2019 as the developer of a popular Steam product named "Wallpaper Engine". If you will check the author name and our company imprint, you will find my full name in both places. Since I am, as a private person, very much interested in Steam and the video games industry, I decided to take these pictures and make them available on Wikimedia Commons since only very few western media outlets were present at the event, even though I considered the event itself very noteworthy for the video games industry.
The pictures I uploaded are very carefully selected to ensure that they only show content that I either hold the rights to myself (or they are public domain as discussed above) and I discussed the release of these images while at the venue with the company representatives of Valve (Steam). This is why there are no pictures of other products. The wallpapers on the other images you see are all dynamically rendered and our own work. ThatGerman (talk) 19:21, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ThatGerman: You might want to elaborate on that in the "permission" section of the {{Information}} template.
From what you are saying, these are probably OK, but I'm sure you can see why that was not obvious. - Jmabel ! talk 20:18, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ThatGerman there was nothing passive-aggressive intended in my question above. There are several elements here that are copyrightable, and it was imaginable that this was basically your own project (which sounds like it wasn't far off) and they were your own work. That would be the only case where the copyright issues here were genuinely simple. Otherwise, we need to account for copyrights and licenses at each level of derivative work. - Jmabel ! talk 19:30, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I think I read the "or what?" in a more aggressive way that you intended. I can follow your reasoning. ThatGerman (talk) 19:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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