Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-EEA
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According to the cited legal notice, EEA content may be re-used, but it doesn’t say anything about modification. (I am not even clear that it permits re-distribution.) To my mind this is not even free use, much less public domain. —teb728 t c 02:48, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
- Keep. EEA changed their legal notice in 2009, some time between 28 February and 8 September (based on the available versions on the Internet Archive: the list of archived versions). Up to at least 28 February 2009, the EEA notice explicitly stated that the material on the website is in the public domain, except for material specifically marked as copyrighted or for third-party material: 28 February version. That was confirmed in the e-mail from EEA linked from the template: Confirmation EEA. Since it's the public domain, it goes without saying that the re-use includes the possibility of modification. At some date between 28 February 2009 and 8 September 2009, the wording of the notice was changed. The statement of release to the public domain was removed and, instead, from that date, the website was released under the free license CC-BY version 2.5 Denmark: 8 September 2009 version. That is still the case in today's EEA website. The license CC-BY is indicated at the bottom of the page. (To see the bottom of the page in today's EEA website, you may need to close the cookie warning notice that pops over it). Material that was already in the public domain before the 2009 change can't be retroactively withdrawn from the public domain. Regarding the Commons template, it would be better to restore its wording to something closer to its original wording [1], to convey accurately the explicit public domain status of the material that was available before the change of 2009. The material from March 2009 or newer could be marked with the license CC-BY 2.5 DK, when applicable. -- Asclepias (talk) 06:52, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks: Then the template should say something about being applicable only pre-2009. It came to my attention from its use on File:SleightsofMind.pdf, the cover of a 2010 book. Also it should say something about checking the use on EEA to be sure that the licensing is not “otherwise indicated.” —teb728 t c 08:43, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, that would be good. -- Asclepias (talk) 15:43, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks: Then the template should say something about being applicable only pre-2009. It came to my attention from its use on File:SleightsofMind.pdf, the cover of a 2010 book. Also it should say something about checking the use on EEA to be sure that the licensing is not “otherwise indicated.” —teb728 t c 08:43, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Kept: I made the changes to the template as per above. But the Spanish translation still needs to be adjusted. P 1 9 9 ✉ 13:55, 21 July 2015 (UTC)