Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Varenimo

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Files uploaded by Varenimo (talk · contribs)

Images were taken from https://archive.org/details/nist-911 which states a public domain licence. The NIST website at https://www.nist.gov/world-trade-center-investigation/photos-videos-and-simulations says of its wider collection that Materials available in the repository may be protected by copyrights owned by private individuals or organizations, and may be subject to restrictions on use.

It's possible that the archive.org collection is an (officially or unofficially) curated subset of genuinely public domain images, but this seem contradicted by the fact that some of the photos in that archive have a bright red copyright watermark within the image (eg. https://archive.org/details/NIST_9-11_Release_39 which says © 2001. New York City Police Department. All rights reserved. Used with permission of the City of New York.) that contradicts the public domain licence being claimed.

• File:South Tower viewed from North Tower, both towers under construction.jpg
• File:Twin Towers with Battery Park construction.jpg
• File:Twin Towers aerial view.jpg
• File:Twin Towers illuminated by the sun.jpg
• File:Downtown Manhattan with Twin Towers to the left.jpg
• File:South Manhattan with Twin Towers.jpg
• File:Twin Towers from ground.jpg
• File:Manhattan Aerial View.jpg
• File:Downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge with the Twin Towers.jpg
• File:Twin Towers with WTC 7 in twilight.jpg
• File:North Tower from the South Tower.jpg
• File:Downtown Manhattan with Twin Towers.jpg
• File:Twin Towers from New Jersey.jpg
• File:Twin Towers during the end of contruction.jpg
• File:South Tower viewed from the North Tower.jpg
• File:Twin Towers with Financial Center.jpg
• File:World Trade Center from ground.jpg

Belbury (talk) 08:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

User:Varenimo has posted on the talk page of this discussion page today to say that I got them from NIST release 31 and it said it was public domain and on the image upload page everything was checked out well.

What/where is NIST release 31? Is there a web page other than https://archive.org/details/nist-911 that claims all of these images to be in the public domain? Belbury (talk) 18:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

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Deleted: per nomination, how can a work be by a federal employee if the author is unknown?. --Gbawden (talk) 09:44, 18 June 2024 (UTC)