Commons:Deletion requests/Third-party photos hosted by the NWS uploaded by Stas1995

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Third-party photos hosted by the NWS uploaded by Stas1995

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These images were all sourced from webpages of the US National Weather Service but are the work of third-party photographers. However, we have no evidence that any of these images are in the public domain or available under a free license.

For many years, hosting such images on the Commons was done in good faith under the rationale that:

  • public submissions to the NWS all entered the public domain and/or
  • all files hosted on NWS websites were in the public domain unless they carried a formal copyright notice

An extensive review of this rationale in 2024 revealed that neither of these beliefs held up to scrutiny. These findings were confirmed in an RfC conducted from August to October 2024.

Per COM:ONUS it is the responsibility of the person uploading an image to the Commons or anyone arguing for its retention here to provide evidence of permission from the copyright holder. For anyone interested in seeking the permission of the creators to retain these files, I offer, as a head start, the following notes left over from when I investigated them:

File:Clouds (National Weather Service).jpg
Photographer tentatively identified and messaged on September 22; no response. VRT ticket:2024102910004941
File:Sunset (National Weather Service).jpg
Photographer identified and messaged on September 22; no response. VRT ticket:2024102910004986
File:Winter Sunset (National Weather Service).jpg
Photographer confirmed taking the photo; seemed open to releasing freely, but stopped responding September 22 before finalising. VRT ticket:2024102910005029

All these images were taken in the US after 1989, and therefore automatically protected by copyright at the instant of their creation unless ineligible for some reason. Unless anybody can provide any evidence of ineligibility for copyright, or permission from the respective copyright owners, we must delete all the files listed in this request per COM:PRP because as far as we can tell, they all are protected by copyright. --Rlandmann (talk) 11:05, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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