Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Arlington Stadium WS.jpg

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Image:Arlington_Stadium_WS.jpg

The World Stadiums site (http://www.worldstadiums.com/) claims to host free photos of football (soccer) stadiums around the world.[1] However, investigations will show that it is a indiscriminate host of copyright violations. They have taken André Zahn's CC by 2.0 Image:Old Trafford inside 20060726 1.jpg here on Commons, and used it.[2] Slapping their watermark on it, they did not bother to mention anywhere that Zahn was the original author. Furthermore, they should have released their modified image under a similar CC license but nowhere do their policies or actions come to that effect. This goes against the CC by 2.0 license Zahn has made the image available for use. Further examples of blatant copyright violation:

• BBC's file photo of the Emirates stadium — A reduced watermarked photo on World Stadiums
• Anfield stadium's tour site — Cropped, resized, and watermarked on World Stadiums (note the "rubber stamping" editing for the world stadium picture to remove the logo)
• Again for Anfield, the aerial view is an unmarked and larger version used as the background at this fansite (image URL is http://www.premiershipteamnews.co.uk/images/liverpoolcropped.jpg — the "cropped" suggests that this fansite has cropped it from a larger original photo). The World Stadiums site never used the larger original photo. More incriminating is that they use the same cropping boundaries as this fansite's background. Hence, they must have resized it and slapped their watermark on it to make it their own.
• World Stadium's picture on the Kingston Communications Stadium blatantly reuses Skysport's interior shot and an edited version of this (resize, rotate, and stamp out the shadows)
• World Stadium's exterior shot of the Busan Asiad Stadium is taken again from the BBC (direct image location). They just resized it.
• The Denver Invesco shot on World Stadiums is a resized cropped copyright violation from Colorado Aerial
• Their Maksimir stadium shots are taken from here and here (further evidence jutarnji has original shot—another view. For the aerial view, World Stadiums resized and rotated the original image, "rubber stamping" (copy and paste) surrounding areas to fill out the space opened by the rotation. They even edited out the tower in the adjacent building.
• Their La Manoliu stadium was directly cropped and resized from [3] for the aerial graphics this site for the interior graphics.

A list of images on Commons from the site that should also be deleted:

• Image:Arlington Stadium WS.jpg
• Image:USAirwaysCenteraerialWS.jpg
• Image:TexasStadiumWS.jpg
• Image:LincolnFinancialFielWS.jpg
• Image:LouisianaSuperdomeWs.jpg
• Image:LPFieldWS.jpg
• Image:InvescoFieldWS.jpg (speedied as copyvio, explicitly proven)
• Image:FedExForumaerialWS.jpg
• Image:FordcenterWS.jpg
• Image:TWC Arean WS.jpg
• Image:TD Banknorth Garden WS.jpg
• Image:Zentral stadion aerial WS.jpg
• Image:Stade olympique Ataturk WS.jpg
• Image:Sajik Baseball Stadium WS.jpg
• Image:AT&T Center WS.jpg
• Image:Arrowhead Stadium WS.jpg
• Image:Busan Asiad Stadium ext WS.jpg (speedied as copyvio, explicitly proven)
• Image:Busan Asiad Stadium Inter WS.jpg
• Image:TWCAreanWS.jpg
• Image:MTSCentreIntWS.jpg
• Image:MTSCentreWS.jpg
• Image:Stade 7 Novembre2.JPG
• Image:Stade 7 Novembre1.JPG
• Image:Stade 5 Juillet 1962.jpg
• Image:Hopp-StadionWS.jpg
• Image:City of Manchester Stadium aerial view.jpg
• Image:Crnogorska marakana.jpg
• Image:Stadion zenice.jpg
• Image:Ofk beograd stadion.jpg
• Image:Napredak krusevac stadion.jpg
• Image:Zemunska marakana.jpg
• Image:Hajduk kula.jpg
• Image:Wembley Stadium aerial view.jpg
• Image:Bucharest manoliu2.jpg
• Image:Gelsenkirchen parkstadion1.jpg

As on 03:25, 29 November 2008 (UTC). World Stadiums cannot be trusted on the copyright status for any of their hosted image. The issue has been brought up on Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Attention#World Stadiums is a bad source as well. Jappalang (talk) 03:24, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

•  Delete World Stadiums can clearly not be trusted for copyright licenses. Anonymous101 ^talk 09:34, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I took the bold step to mark the images (except Arlington's) as No permissions. Jappalang (talk) 01:35, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I think that taggin is no problem, but it is also not needed: Worldstadium is not a reliable source like shown in your statement, simply use TinEye and you will come to the same result for nearly every image from this website: resized, +logo, owned. Thats blatant violation of copyright i think,  Delete all images. --Martin H. (talk) 05:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

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Deleted. Clearly not a trustable source. Even if a few of those images are really free, we don't know the real authors of them (since World Statiums just ripped them) and thus can't attribute them in a correct way as would be required by licence. Cecil (talk) 13:30, 10 December 2008 (UTC)