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This is to request the undeletion of [File:EHM Homepage.png], please. For your information, we are the team working on the development of the Engineering Historical Memory (EHM) application and website, which is an open-access knowledge database. The image we have uploaded is the screenshot of the EHM homepage. Thank you.--EngineeringHistoricalMemory (talk) 02:32, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
"Apart from any fair dealings for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted by law, no part of the Site may be reproduced or reused for any commercial purposes whatsoever without our prior written permission. The modification of the materials on the Site is prohibited."
This upload violates those terms. Further, it is not clear that a screenshot that is largely illegible has any educational value as required by Commons. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:20, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
@Jameslwoodward: I think it is counterproductive to quote terms of use and copyright statements on websites and say that "This upload violates those terms" when the requestor is clearly claiming to be the copyright holder, since the copyright holder is free to issue a free license outside of those terms. It makes much more sense to ask them to send proof to COM:VRT. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠16:53, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
Oppose I do not see that this screenshot is "realistically useful for an educational purpose"; OP has not contributed to any other Wikimedia project that may explain the purpose of uploading this image. Thuresson (talk) 19:28, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you Thuresson for the comment. The screenshot of the EHM homepage is to be used in the EHM Wikipedia page for readers' reference. The EHM Wikipedia page is currently under review. Thank you. EngineeringHistoricalMemory (talk) 06:15, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you Jim for the comment. The EHM application is open and free for all and its primary objective is for people to research and study primary and secondary historical resources. The screenshot of the EHM homepage that had been uploaded earlier to Wiki Commons is to be used in the respective EHM Wikipedia page. This screenshot provides a reference and would be useful to be included in the EHM Wikipedia page. We note that some other Wikipedia pages also use homepage screenshot, e.g., COVID Tracking Project. Thank you. EngineeringHistoricalMemory (talk) 06:10, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, Usually copyright expires on December 31st. So I would suggest to request this undeletion against on January 1st, 2023. Thanks, Yann (talk) 19:59, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
The image is not a copyright violation. It was taken as a screenshot of the trailer uploaded by the film's producers on Youtube under a
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) license.Princess of Ara (talk) 05:11, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Oppose I think this is license laundering of a sort. The source is a YouTube account belonging to IrokoTV, which is not the movie's producer, so the free license which appears there is not valid. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 16:07, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Support IrokoTV is a very large corporate account, and after checking several of their other videos I can say that they don't blanket apply CC to all their uploads, i.e. they intentionally marked this one as CC. I feel like we shouldn't be second-guessing whether large corporate accounts are authorized to release material under a free license. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠17:13, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
I disagree. First, IrokoTV is not the producer of this movie, so it does not own the original copyright. Although it certainly has licensed the right to show the movie, I see no reason why it would have a license that allows it to freely license the movie -- why would they buy something they didn't need? Second, in any case, the CC license is simply wrong -- it calls for IrokoTV to be credited as the creator of the movie, which we know it is not. Knowing that the CC license is incorrect, why should we honor it in any respect? . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 13:48, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
It's not freely licensing the movie - it's only a trailer. I see it as entirely plausible that the copyright holder has privately authorized IrokoTV to release the trailer under a CC license so that it can be distributed more widely. CC licenses only require that the creator be attributed if provided with the licensed material, which was not done in this case. (There's a subtle distinction here: If the copyright holder had issued a CC license and IrokoTV is republishing it under that license, then the lack of attribution would be a copyright violation. But if the copyright holder, via private agreement, authorized IrokoTV to release it under a CC license, then the agreement could allow anything including publication without attribution of the copyright holder.) My point is that it is not our place to speculate or demand proof of backroom dealings when big media entities are involved. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠16:40, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
Oppose - Agree with Jim. This appears to be nothing but license laundering. irokotv, the "source" YouTube channel is merely a movie streaming website. There is no reason or evidence on offer as to why a trailer for a movie whose production companies are Sneeze Films and Kinetic Media could be licensed by irokotv. This seems no different than believing Netflix could license a trailer to a Warner Brothers' movie. Surely we should not be so credulous. Эlcobbolatalk16:42, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
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Oppose The Flickreview of the original upload shows a CC-BY license. The Flickr page is now ARR. While we could, therefore, keep this image, it is a very small crop (120px off the bottom) and is not in use. I see no reason to keep two such similar images. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 13:59, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
Support It was COM:INUSE on Spanish Wikipedia until its deletion, after which it was replaced with the uncropped original. As the preferred version of Spanish Wikipedia, it should be restored to the article. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠16:28, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
This file is a photo of may father Daniel MEIER taken at home in the eighties. I didn't know I had to ask permission for it. I suppose it was first published by DMacks. Is it possible to put it back on the page?
Jean-Philippe MEIER, june 29, 2022--Esvagat (talk) 09:01, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Oppose In the upload you claimed that you were the photographer by using {{Own}}. Your message above suggests that is not actually the case. If you were the photographer, then just say so here. If not, then in order to restore the image, the actual photographer or his heir must send a free license using VRT. Also note that claiming that you were the photographer when you were not is a serious violation of Commons rules. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 15:01, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
This file has been deleted because of a supposed copyright violation. I took the photo myself as part of a series of photos of older digital devices. You can also find it here. If you download the file there, the EXIF will quite likely also contains my name.
I am curious how this claim came to be. Do people randomly claim images? Does that somehow happen automatically?
@Winfel: It contains a screenshot of the copyright Microsoft Windows CE software. Can you please edit it to blank the screen, and then reupload your new version by clicking "Upload a new version of this file"? -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠22:51, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
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A photo from the internet was removed from my article
I retrieved the photo of Svitlana Winnikow from the internet, uploaded in Wikimedia commons, then posted it in my article. I do not understand why it was deleted.
To be clear, the image I used was from The Michigan Technological University website which is what the Svitlana article was for. Please help me understand. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Husky1986 (talk • contribs)
@Husky1986: You are not allowed to upload images from the Internet without a formal written permission from the copyright holder. Your upload was a copyright violation. Please read COM:L. Thanks, Yann (talk) 16:41, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I first uploaded this photo without a source and it got corrupted. I requested to remove it and the removal request was successfully accepted by the admins. Unfortunately, now some Wikimedia administrators think that this is the same previous image without a source, and the previous list that I told to delete is shown to me. I have a request to revive the page. ThanksOzeyr (talk) 18:43, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Buenas noches, el motivo de mi solicitud es que vuelvan a colocar mi foto donde la había puesto, ya que es para un trabajo de la universidad.Asimismo, no entiendo la razón de que lo hayan borrado,puesto que yo mismo he tomado la foto con mi celular. ¿Qué copyright he hecho entonces..?. Por favor, revisen nuevamente y no sean injustos. Josué Pariona (talk) 23:50, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Oppose As noted in the deletion summary, "Screenshot of non-free content", the photo infringes on the copyright of the material on the screen. It also is poor quality, out of focus and poorly cropped, so it is probably out of scope. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 13:50, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Reason: I would like to request a review/appeal the decision to delete this file. The original upload was marked as a PD-textlogo. I'm not sure if the trademark tag was applied or not, but if it wasn't, the trademark tag could easily have been added to this file instead of deleted. The official reason given for the deletion was "Copyright violation" rather than a specific message that this file met the threshold of originality, which would be the correct reason to delete it.
It is my view that this logo consists only of a font and simple, geometric shapes and does not meet the threshold of originality. If the colour gradient is a cause of any disruption, there are "flat" versions of this logo with no colour gradience that may be used instead.
Oppose We don't have any information on the ToO in Ireland. I think that with or without the colors, this would be above the ToO in most countries. The discussion above is not quite right. It was deleted as a copyright violation, which would require that it was found to be above the ToO, so saying that it was above the ToO would be redundant. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 13:59, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
I am expressing this request to address the undeletion of my photo File:Divic_the_businessman.jpg. The photo has my copyright and the content is myself in the picture during the youth connekt summit in Kigali, Rwanda in 2019. Kindly receive this request for undeletion and consider discussing more about this content and permission to be earned.
Oppose First, the image does not appear to be a selfie, so your claim that you were the photographer appears to be incorrect. Claiming {{Own work}} for someone else's work is a serious violation of Commons rules. Second, as a person whose only contributions to Commons have been images of yourself, you do not qualify to have images kept here. Commons is not Facebook. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 14:08, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
I want the picture to be restored because it looks better than the sketch from 1967. Tarafa the poet died at the age of 26, and the man in the old sketch appears to be older than Tarafa's death age.
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Oppose Reopened -- it has been deleted. The material in the PDF appears on the web without a free license. Also, we do not allow PDFs that are primarily images. If these belong on Commons, they must be individual files. The credits page might appear in WP, but as Wiki markup, not as a PDF. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:33, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
@Ankry: I understood now, that the URAA-date for India is and remains 1 January 1996, so that only photographs created before 1946 can be marked {{PD-1996}} to cover the United States public domain status. Thus, later photographs (as these three) are not in the public domain in the United States and never will be. Somehow I misunderstood, it would be enough to wait until some day every file would lose copyright protection. I don't understand why at all in Wikimedia Commons there is a template {{PD-India-photo-1958}}, giving false hope informing "This photograph is currently in the public domain in India because it was created before 1958 OR it was published prior to 1 January 1962", because that information is completely irrelevant. So, I withdraw my request and will concentrate my edits in the future to historical subjects of before 1946, or better before 1927 (or, of course, some but not all things I photographed myself). Sorry for not not working through the text thoroughly enough URAA - English Laywer Language is not my mother tongue... ThomasPusch (talk) 23:26, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Never will be is not true: just US copyright law needs to be applied to them (by default: 120 years since creation or 95 years since publication - for anonymous or published before 1978, 70 pma - for known photographers, if published after 1978). But in most cases it is indeed a reasonable long tome period to wait.
The information in the template is not false: it refers just to one of two conditions that need to be met (copyright in India). A separate template needs to be added that describes US copyright status, where the photo may be free of copyright for some reason, or has copyright expired. It is possible eg. if it was published initially in an Indian newspapaer/magazine that was also distributed in US in the 30-day period. If you can point out such a publication, we can go on. Ankry (talk) 10:03, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
While this is now largely unneeded since the files have already been undeleted, I support now as I supported in the DR that these are exempt. Thank you for undeleting, Well-Informed Optimist. — Huntster (t@c)16:20, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
Support undeletion unless there is an evidence tha the JPG is scalled up (I do not see it). Rationale: (a) we can host same image with different graphic format (PNG vs. JPG), (b) the PNG likely originates from a JPG image and the JPG is smaller in size while higher pixel size, (c) the JPG image has a source. Ankry (talk) 10:31, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
@Towngas0003: Please sign your posts. 1) Are you saying that you are the photographer? 2) Who is the subject? Regardless of the copyright status, per COM:SCOPE images must be useful for an educational purpose, such as being used on some Wikipedia article. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠04:03, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose There is no file description and no categories, so this image is useless. As KoH says, we need to know that the subject falls within Commons scope as educationally useful. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:51, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
I want a file undeleted, which I photoed myself almost three years ago, and put it on my data as someone who marked as speedy deletion for "out of scope."
This picture I toke on my own from my own PC/Desktop screenshot testing the mentioned software on Windows 10,
I made the picture because many believes that software (since it's old) cannot run on Windows 10.
--UsamahBazzi (talk) 09:43, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose This is a screenshot of copyrighted software and cannot be kept on Commons without a free license from the software's creator. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:28, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
@Jameslwoodward In view of some kept decision of Windows 10-related screenshot DRs in the last year, and most of their keep reasons are "below TOO", I would seek a temporarily undeletion here to judge if this particular one beyonds TOO in general or not Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:26, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose Agreed. The fact that it is public does not make it free of copyright. Everything on the Web is public, but very little of it is actually freely licensed so that it could be uploaded here. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 22:09, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose The fact that it is public does not make it free of copyright. Everything on the Web is public, but very little of it is actually freely licensed so that it could be uploaded here. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 22:11, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
According to the authorization method and scope described in the announcement of the opening of the information on the website of the Legislative Yuan, all the information and materials published on the website of the Legislative Yuan Global Information Network may be protected by copyright for free and non-exclusive purposes. The authorized method is provided for public use. Users can reproduce, modify, edit, publicly transmit or use them in other ways to develop various products or services without limitation of time and region. This authorization will not be withdrawn later, and the user will also No written or other authorization from the agency is required. However, when using it, the source should be indicated.
Therefore this image falls within the scope of fair use
Fairuse is not accepted in Wikimedia Commons. You declared that the image is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0: providing false information about copyright is against Wikimedia Commons policy. Ankry (talk) 06:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Ankry Fair use is just my word, but according to the Legislative Yuan's website open data declaration, it is in compliance with the conditions of CC-BY-SA 4.0, how can it be false information?
Oppose - 1) cc-by-sa 4.0 is a legally distinct license. That a terms page may have certain provisions with similarities to those of that license does not mean that license may be simply slapped on. If a work is not explicitly licensed as cc-by-sa 4.0, it is not cc-by-sa 4.0. There is no reference whatsoever to that license on the provide page. 2) The terms include "The information on this website (except the pictures in the "Congress Art Show") may be reproduced for personal or family non-profit purposes" (本網站上之資訊(「國會藝展」內圖片除外)，可為個人或家庭非營利之目的而重製) which seems to be a non-commercial restriction. Эlcobbolatalk12:53, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
I'm an official Joanna Jakubas representator (my work email - [email deleted] is added on her social media and website: joannajakubas.com).
This photo is available on all Joanna's social media channel and is her official image.
I would be very grateful if you undelete her photo.
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Oppose - You yourself acknowledged this to be the work of Marlena Bielińska, which is confirmed, for example, by the credit here. COM:VRT evidence of permission from Bielinska is needed. As copyright initially vests in the author (photographer), not the mere subject, permission or relationship to Jakubas ("I'm an official Joanna Jakubas representator") is not meaningful. Эlcobbolatalk13:13, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
According to the Declaration on the Opening of Information on the Central Election Commission's website, in order to facilitate the wide use of the website information, all materials and materials published on the Central Election Commission's website may be protected by copyright in a free, non-exclusive, and sub-authorized manner. Provided for public use, users may reproduce, modify, edit, publicly transmit or use in other ways to develop various products or services (referred to as value-added derivatives) without limitation of time and region. This authorization will not be withdrawn later. , the user does not need to obtain written or other authorization from the agency; however, the source should be indicated when using it.
Qualifies for CC-BY-SA 4.0 according to the above, so the page should be restored
This announcement is the same license as {{GWOIA}} which is a free license. However, without seeing the content of the image in question, there may or may not be other factors that determine whether this specific image is free. --Wcam (talk) 18:22, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Note that falsely claiming that you were the photographer is a serious violation of Commons rules. If you do it again, you may be blocked from editing here. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 21:02, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
I agree to publish the above-mentioned work under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work, even in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites.
I am aware that the copyright holder always retains ownership of the copyright as well as the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by the copyright holder.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
The above picture has been deleted by mistake I feel.
The actual photographer and copyright holder of the image have already sent the VRT mail. And one of your volunteer. So I'm reuesting you for the undeletion. Thanks in advance.
--dnivara hsemak
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hsemak dnivara (talk • contribs) 19:40, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
I was the VRT agent who accepted the permission. @EugeneZelenko: I see that you often speedy delete images with the rationale "Promo/press photo". That is not actually a valid reason for speedy deletion. COM:CSD#F1 says "Content is a clear copyright violation, with evidence that no Commons-compatible licensing has been issued by the copyright holder." Images should not be deleted based on a mere guess without any concrete evidence. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠08:38, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Claudy Gassant was a top prosecutor in Haiti. He died in the Dominican Republic on July 31, 2021. His was mentioned in several pages on Wikipedia and his death was on the first page in some internationally recognized newspaper around the world. Hereby are some examples:
How did you become the copyright owner of this photo of somebody who died in 1975? Who is the photographer? Thuresson (talk) 14:46, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
The photograph is a self-portrait by my great grandfather, Dwight Smith Young. As explained on his WikiPedia page, he was a professional photographer, among many careers in his life. This accounts for the professional studio look of this self-portrait. He did not leave a will assigning ownership of his personal photographs, so they became the intellectual property of his son, who then gave them to my uncle, who then gave them to me. Projectorhead (talk) 15:30, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Comment If Dwight Smith Young is the requester's great-grandfather, and the image is a selfie, as claimed in the file description, then it is possible that the requester is an heir and has the right to freely license the image. However, "I agree to the publishing of it on the wikipedia page" is not a free license; we cannot restore the image on that basis. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 15:27, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
How can I assign the photograph a free license as the copyright holder? When I try to re-upload I get the notification 'a file identical to this file has previously been deleted. You should check that file's deletion history before proceeding to re-upload it.' Next step suggestions? Projectorhead (talk) 15:41, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
It's not quite that simple. Ownership of the physical photographs is irrelevant. In the absence of explicit written instructions by Dwight Smith Young, copyright would pass first to his heirs as tenants in common and then to the heirs of the heirs. We have Dwight Smith Young, then his son or daughter X (your grandfather or grandmother), then X's son or daughter Y (your mother or father). If both X and Y are dead, then in the absence of any written copyright transfers, you own the copyright in common with other heirs. However, if X or Y is alive, then you do not have an ownership interest in the copyright. If both are living then X or any other heir must provide the free license. If Y is alive, then he or she or any other heir must provide the license. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 21:31, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
The following is a realistic portrait of the late Emperor Tewodros II. Consideration should be given as to the authenticy of this work.
On the other hand, the current picture posted on Wikipeida under "Theodore II", is a modernized yet unrealistic version; lacking connection and resembalance to the well-documented personal features of that individual.
A removal request was recently submitted. We have confirmed that a similar photo was uploaded to the organizer's website[2]. We also received a response that no disapproval has been communicated regarding permission to post the photo, so we will submit the request.--Araisyohei(talk)13:52, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Support I agree that it is in scope and licensed, but the screen in the background should be cropped since it certainly has a copyright. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 14:00, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
A Bot deleted the official Logo of "University of The Gambia"
In 2012 I was personally asked, by the Dean of the School, to add the Logo to Wikipedia article. There is no Copyright infringement. --Gatherinformation (talk) 16:38, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose This logo is complex, so copyrighted. For copyrighted logos used anywhere before uploading to Commons, we need a written free license permission from the logo copyright holder as described in VRT: the University authorities need to follow this procedure in they wish the logo to be hosted here. Ankry (talk) 08:38, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
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I believe this was incorrectly deleted and the terms of "PD-EU-no author disclosure" license are met. --RAN (talk) 03:14, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): For "PD-EU-no author disclosure" we need clear publication date and country of publication. Note that anonymous works published in France in 1936 or later were still copyrighted in France in 1996 (due to war copyright extensions) and so are in most cases copyrighted in US 95 years since publication or 120 years since creation. Ankry (talk) 08:48, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello, i found this image in several website. All the pics in Chuvash page are very old photos from 19th century. I believe this is a great photo to represent my nation. -- Volgabulgaritalk12:39, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose - Nonsense request. This is a contemporary photo (direct) of people dressed in traditional costume. They did not have digital cameras in the 19th century. Эlcobbolatalk15:02, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
I think it isn't nonsense, just misinformed. Volgabulgari seems to be saying that the photo is an improvement over the other images in the category because it is newer; however, this means it is not in the public domain due to age like the others, and should not be reinstated unless evidence can be provided that the image is under a libre license or even PD. Arlo James Barnes05:12, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
You appear not to have read Volgabulgari's request, which includes "All the pics in Chuvash page are very old photos from 19th century". This is, in fact, nonsense for the reason stated. Эlcobbolatalk10:30, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Consensus at the DR had seemed to settle on a COM:REVDEL since the latest version cleared objections to earlier versions; however, a full-delete was employed instead. Hereby requesting the noninfringing final version to be reinstated. Arlo James Barnes05:09, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose A modified cover does not represent the original game, and if there is an article on the English Wikipedia, you can easily use a low-resolution image of the original cover with a fair use rationale. So there is no need whatsoever to keep any of these images at Commons. De728631 (talk) 08:46, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Comment As I understand it, we're talking about British copyright here (the game was by a British company). The threshold of originality is notoriously low in the UK (see COM:TOO United Kingdom), so I'm not so sure the cover design even without the photo would be below UK TOO. In that case the precautionary principle says delete. en:File:Samantha Fox Strip Poker cover.jpg already exists btw. --Rosenzweigτ09:26, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
kindly undelete this picture, it was personal captured and all consents and rights were given out to me.
@Charleschilu: Please tell what files you want restored. Some of your files seem to have been album covers, probably not created by you, some did not have enough information on their copyright status, and some were deleted as out of scope. –LPfi (talk) 13:38, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Not done: As the name implies, "File:Example.jpg" is just an example image. No proper name for a file to be restored has been provided after request, so I'm closing this. --De728631 (talk) 15:13, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
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Done per De728631 and lack of complaints from the deleting admin. @Donald Trung: please, verify if ythe license template & other info is correct. Ankry (talk) 06:46, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
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Oppose The original photo is credited to "AL Studio" so we cannot host it without a permission that was emailed directly by the copyright holder. Please see COM:VRT for details. De728631 (talk) 15:04, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
No entiendo por qué se ha eliminado ésta imagen, cuando hay cientos de imágenes con descripciones parecidas en las páginas de escritores. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivonne 70 (talk • contribs) 11:13, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
@Ivonne 70: As you can see from the message at your user talk page, the image was deleted because it is a copyright infringement. Specifically, it can be found elsewhere online without a free licence, and you credited a certain Víctor García Antón as the author. So you are not allowed to upload it here without a permission from Víctor García Antón. The permission has to be sent by Mr. García Antón himself as explained in COM:VRT. De728631 (talk) 12:01, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
PS: Do not reupload the image before we have received permission from the copyright holder, or your account here may be blocked. De728631 (talk) 12:01, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Done The uploader's statement in the "Source" section is effectively an indication of {{subst:PP}}, so granting the customary grace period. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠17:40, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
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I am requesting an undeletion for the image File:Peter Phillips location - preferred.jpg as a copy of written permission for the image has now been sent to VRT. Many thanks
This was deleted before I had a chance to respond to the nomination's stated reason for deletion:
The keto group (double bond and O) is misplaced, depending on the thumbnail size. […] See thumbnail on the right hand side, where also the last “3” is partially cropped.
I posted an explanation for the discrepancy on Leyo's talk page:
This is the fault of Wikimedia's outdated version of librsvg, a library for SVG rasterisation notorious for buggy SVG support. Whenever you see SVG text rendered differently at a particular thumbnail size, a workaround is to use the next-largest thumbnail size which displays the text correctly.
I'd like to amend the SVG's width to compensate for the aforementioned clipping issue. I can reupload the file, but I'm guessing an undeletion is the canonical approach to this sort of issue.
OmenBreeze (talk) 20:32, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
That PNG does not seem to have any chemical or rendering mistakes and is unlike the others in style/type of representation--I don't see any basis for deletion. In fact, this PNG is exactly the better-alternative replacement for the SVG--has the same style, so no judgement was made about the style because the PNG was not nominated and there wasn't as strong a support for that style being problematic. I'm not sure why nobody bothered to ping me, given I was the DR closer. DMacks (talk) 03:03, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
"Chemical drawing style" means whether the C/H and bond-lines are visible (see w:Structural formula; there are formal style definitions from national/international standards bodies that define the meanings of various conventions). The fact that this PNG you mentioned has the same style as the SVG that went DR means they fill the same COM:EDUSE niche, and it's solely an issue of filetype and how they display in use-cases. The fact that they are a different style from the other SVG in the category means it's not obvious whether those SVG should replace this PNG in WP articles. Again, my DR close was solely based on the fact that the SVG didn't display properly whereas the PNG did. DMacks (talk) 08:52, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
If I upload an SVG of a chemical diagram that violates established conventions, I don't mind if it's deleted… but only if the PNG it was based upon is deleted as well. I take great pains to recreate the original detail, and since I've little to no understanding of chemistry (what's a bond?), I'm left to trust the original author that they knew what they were doing.
I should also reiterate that the SVG did display correctly at most sizes; it was only a specific thumbnail size that triggered the librsvg bug. The clipping was simply a result of inadequate "breathing space", if you catch my drift. OmenBreeze (talk) 09:00, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Support Per COM:NPOV, being "wrong" is never a reason to delete an image which is COM:INUSE, which it was at the time of deletion. There is value to having a version with the carbons explicitly shown rather than implied, and I have faith that the uploader will be able to correct the problems with the SVG. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠02:25, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
@King of Hearts: could you clarify your INUSE objection here? I replaced the SVG with the PNG (which, remember, has the same explicit-carbons style) at 03:35, 28 June 2022 (UTC) [3] as part of my deletion/closing of the COM:DR. That seems pretty standard per-process: DR decides that a replacement should be made and the nom'ed file deleted. DMacks (talk) 03:03, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
That is totally not the point of DR. It is up to the local community to decide which version of a file to use, so "DR decides that a replacement should be made" is a phrase that should never be uttered. And besides, if OmenBreeze fixes the SVG, then what reason do you have to object to its restoration? -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠04:31, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
The local community includes commons folks. In the future, I will make sure we (as local editors) make replacements when we (as local editors) are alerted (via watchlisting/participation in commons DR process) that a commons file is poor and has a better alternative prior to it being deleted from commons. But again, this was a SVG that did not render properly, not a judgement on whether what the image represented was "correct" in any way (the PNG was equivalent content just different file-format). DMacks (talk) 08:36, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
The argument It is up to the local community to decide which version of a file to use is nonsense since OmenBreeze has recently exchanged the high-quality PNG by his buggy SVG (see he:מיוחד:Diff/34124889). There is absolutely no need to restore the buggy SVG, even if OmenBreeze might be able to fix the issues. --Leyo07:27, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
"There is absolutely no need to restore the buggy SVG, even if OmenBreeze might be able to fix the issues." JFC, this is literally a simple fix. All the image needs is a wider margin to accommodate the incorrect font-size (at a specific thumbnail size only, may I add). You're making a mountain out of a molehill, and I've no idea why. OmenBreeze (talk) 07:44, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Actually, I've a better idea. What's stopping me from bypassing this ruckus and reuploading the fixed SVG that renders correctly at an unrealistically-specific thumbnail size? I only opened an undeletion request because I thought it was proper conduct. But Leyo's attitude has caused me to start having second thoughts… OmenBreeze (talk) 07:48, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
I have obviously no objection to an upload of a correctly-rendering file. If you'd like the old file back in order to work on improving it, I have no objection either. I don't see a reason that Commons needs to have it revived if you just want to upload a fresh file at this or another filename (same uploader, no license-chain, etc) DMacks (talk) 08:36, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
I actually keep backups of everything I upload to Commons. It's more the revision history that I was interested in keeping (GitHub has trained me to value unabridged logs of public changes to files).
Righto, done. This time I factored in what you said about bond-line alignment and broke the text-object into chunks, preventing the adjoining chemical group from being pushed out-of-alignment. The problematic thumbnail size reported by Leyo now displays correctly along with the rest of the thumbnail sizes:
Neutral In my opinion, it's always better to use SVG files rather than PNG versions. If SVG files are used, they have to render correctly and should be free from vectorization errors. Indeed it might make sense to upload a SVG version of File:5-Methyl-2-Hexanone.png, but then, the SVG should completely be in path mode to avoid deviation from Manual of Style for Structure drawing (this is not the case for almost all files of OmenBreeze). — Chem Sim 2001 (talk) 09:00, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
the SVG should completely be in path mode… Err, why? Editable (non-outlined) text is easier to edit, both in a text-editor and graphics software. Outlining text adds needless bloat, is an a11y faux-pas, and is redundant for the vast majority of chemical formulae which all use Arial. Actually, to hell with it. I don't have the patience to deal with librsvg and fastidious chemists, so from now on, all chemistry diagrams I upload will have outlined text and strokes. OmenBreeze (talk) 09:18, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
The newly uploaded version does not render nicely. There are too large gaps after the subscript numbers.
Anyway, there is no advantage to vectorize high-quality PNG structural formulas, while there are many low-quality images in Category:Chemistry images that should use vector graphics and its subcategory. Re-drawing them according to MOS:CHEM and upload them as SVG would result in a real benefit. --Leyo13:04, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Okay, fine. I've outlined the fucking text and strokes, against my better judgement. At this point, I've stopped caring about SVG markup integrity (since it's clear that nobody else gives a shit either). OmenBreeze (talk) 18:32, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Really... such long discussion about a file that was rightly deleted and can be redrawn in a correct way and reuploaded in a 1–2 minutes... and who the hell came up with the idea to vectorize the chemical structure diagrams??? Really bad idea that should be discontinued. Such diagrams should be drawn in a proper software and in accordance with MoS+IUPAC recommendations. Wostr (talk) 08:58, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
I know that the first of these files was deleted incorrectly, and I request that they all be undeleted to determine actual copyright status, as they were deleted summarily without discussion. The first file was published in the United States in 1912, which means that it is in the public domain. The date of the translator’s death does not matter, in such a case, as only publication date matters. The other two works, which were deleted in kind, may also be free of copyright; and even if they are not, it is good to know as an actual matter whether they are copyrighted. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 14:42, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Support The Aesop's Fables. It was simultaneously published in New York and London in 1917. While the translator's heirs still have a UK copyright, for our purposes it's a USA book and therefore PD.
Oppose The colophons of the Rubiat and the Parsifal both call out publication only in London, so dates of death of the translators and illustrators will determine their copyright status. If either died after 1926, the book is still under URAA US copyright (UK copyright 70 years PMAafter 1926 is 1996, the URAA cutoff).. Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 20:57, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
(Jameslwoodward): Illustrated books such as these were often published both in the United Kingdom and in the United States, but by different publishers using separate publisher’s marks. (This was frequently the case for Rackham’s illustrations, where a number of his gift books would have “American editions” which had the same content and were printed at the same time, but with a different publisher.) Could you please temporarily undelete those two files, so that I may check for further bibliographic information? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:34, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
I agree that we need a temporary undeletion to enable researching the copyright status. The crux for Commons policy is where these works were first published. If they were first published in the US, or published in the US within 30 days of the UK publication, then they are US works for the purposes of Commons policy (because that would make them US works under Berne). As such the relevant term would be pub. + 95 rather than pma. 70, and with a pre-1927 publication date they would now be public domain even if all formalities were observed (notice, renewal, etc.). In any case, determining relative publication dates with reasonable accuracy requires careful research so having the files for reference is fairly crucial. Xover (talk) 09:23, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
The colophon of both books calls out publication only in London by George G. Harrap and Co.. There is no date. The Rubiat translator is not credited. The author of Parsifal is T. W. Rolleston (1857-1920) and the illustrator of both is Willy Pogany (1882-1955). Both books are therefore under UK copyright until 1/1/2026. The Rolleston article gives 1912 as the date for the Parsifal, so it is free of URAA copyright and can be restored in 2026. My guess is that the Rubiat is also pre 1927, but that will up to our colleagues in 2026 to decide. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 13:50, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
@Jameslwoodward: It was common practice at this time for a UK publisher and a US publisher to enter into a partnership whereby they both publish editions of the same work at roughly the same time. Each edition lists only the local publisher, but it is the same work for copyright purposes. If this happened here and the US edition was either the first one published or it was published within 30 days of the UK edition, then Berne and Commons policy treats it as a US work even if it would still be in copyright in the UK. It is therefore crucial to do research to determine exactly what the publication history is, including checking US and UK newspapers to see whether the exact date it was made available to the public can be determined. And for that it is extremely hampering to not have access to the actual scans that are under discussion to check just such details as colophon, ads for other books from the publisher, who the actual publisher is (there are some known US—UK publisher partnerships), etc. That's why I'm saying a temporary undelete is necessary here. Xover (talk) 15:17, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
In re partnerships: I am expecting to find that Lippincott published a US edition of this roughly contemporarily (and possibly simultaneously) with the G. G. Harrap UK edition, as they did with comparable works at the time. Xover (talk) 15:22, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Thuresson: Thank you for the sources. (Jameslwoodward): The MU listing gives the Rubáiyát as being published in 1909, and the Parsifal in 1912. As both of these books were published in the English language before 1927, they are both in the public domain in the United States. I ask that they be undeleted so that they may be moved to the English Wikisource, for use there. Further discussion regarding copyright may be had at that place with the advantage of the scans and the time to pursue further research. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:06, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Done for File:MU KPB 051 Aesop's Fables - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.pdf per above. However, here is a little doubt here: there is infortmation inside that the first edition was published in 1912; it is unclear whether it was also published in US and/or whether it was ilustrated by the same ilustrator. So this book may be copyrighted in US, but IMO we have no evidence for this at the moment. And I do not consider this a significant doubt. Ankry (talk) 08:07, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
@Ankry: Thank you. The files have been copied locally to enWS now. Apologies for the slow response: copying duplicate files to the local wiki requires the reupload_shared right (admin-only at enWS) and TE(æ)A,ea. made the request immediately after the files were undeleted here, but I got distracted and just plum forgot about it, so it's entirely my fault and for a pretty lame reason. Mea culpa!@TE(æ)A,ea.: we should still do the research on the precise copyright. If these were simultaneously published they could be kept on Commons (which is preferable), and, on the flip side, more in-depth research could conceivably show that one or more of them is actually in copyright in the US (in which case enWS couldn't host them either). Xover (talk) 08:51, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
== RobRodin.jpg Should not have been deleted from the Rob Rodin Page ==
Hi -
I work for Rob Rodin and have been tasked with editing/updating his Wikipedia Page. The previous photo on the page was not of Rob Rodin and I asked that it be deleted from the page which it was.
I then uploaded a headshot of Rob per his request, but since it was taken by a photographer (which he paid for), the file was not accepted. Ideally this is the photo we would like to use, but if that's not possible we uploaded the file RobRodin.jpg.
The RobRodin.jpg is a photo of Rob which he owns. What are the barriers I need to overcome to:
1: Publish this photo
2: Edit the page on his behalf as there will be more edits to make over time.
I can be reached via email <redacted> if you need to confirm I work for Rob Rodin.
Looking forward to resolution on this matter.
Thank you in advance for your time regarding this matter.
@TheEditHer: Since the uploaded photo is not the original image from the photo camera, you were requested to provide a proof that you are the author (photographer) as declared. See your talk page for details. Ankry (talk) 07:04, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
Please note also that owning the copy of a photo does not make Mr. Rodin own the copyright too. The copyright is usually held by the original photographer unless it is explicitly transferred to anybody else. We would need evidence of such a copyright transfer as in the copy of the contract that needs to be emailed to our volunteer response team. Please see COM:VRT for details, and do not reupload the image unless the matter has been resolved. De728631 (talk) 12:09, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
I was Working on a Project for a game with the screenshot to wright a Article about it, and it got deleted so now people who dont know what it is cant see it. And I toke that screenshot on my own. I need it for the project im working on and dont believe me about the project look in My Sandbox. --Averan Republic (talk) 12:44, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose Even though you took the screenshot yourself, the Roblox game as such is copyrighted and non-free. Therefore you are not allowed to publish and relicence such screenshots without permission from the original copyright holder of the game. Please see also COM:Derivative works. You may, however, upload a low-resolution screenshot locally at the English Wikipedia with a fair use rationale. See Wikipedia:Non-free content. Here at Commons we cannot keep such files though because all content at Commons needs to be free for anyone to use anywhere. De728631 (talk) 12:54, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
@Averan Republic: At en:Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard, you need to select the "Upload a non-free file" button. Then go through the first two steps. At Step 3, you choose "This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use." and fill in the article the image is needed for (at this stage it's User:Averan_Republic/sandbox). Then select "This is an excerpt from a copyrighted work." and in the drop-down menu choose "Game screenshot". Fill in the required fields and hit the Upload button. De728631 (talk) 13:06, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose - Uploader acknowledges this to be a COM:DW ("I toke (sic) that screenshot on my own"). Assistance for uploading files to en.wiki should be sought there. Эlcobbolatalk21:20, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose - 1) No reason to undelete provided; and 2) this is a sports club logo that appears numerous places on the Internet (e.g., here) and thus requires VRT evidence of permission. Эlcobbolatalk21:12, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
The website that this is hosted on is owned by Jay Rosenzweig himself. He gave me permission to upload this file for his photo for his article.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mistyjgillis (talk • contribs) 17:08, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose - Notwithstanding that this was previously published without a free license per Thuresson above, copyright initially vests in the author (photographer), not the mere subject; thus permission from Rosenzweig, the subject, is without meaning. VRT evidence of permission is needed. Эlcobbolatalk21:15, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Signing your posts is required on talk pages and it is a Commons policy to sign your posts on deletion requests, undeletion requests, and noticeboards. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and a timestamp will then automatically be added when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you.
@Cle.cordova: License is a contract. Why do you think that license to one image applies to another one? If you allow me to use your bike, can I assume that I can use also your car? If you wish to host this particular image here you need to provide an evidence that the logo copyright holder did grant a free license concerning this particular logo. Ankry (talk) 17:41, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
After the deletion of this file, I emailed the creator of this reconstruction asking for permission to upload this file to use on a Wikipedia page and received explicit permission to do so in response. I would like to re-upload the file with this newly confirmed permission. --Apelcini (talk) 23:58, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
@Apelcini: The procedure concerning permissions is described here. If a suitable permission is received, verified and accepted, the image will be unteleted. Note: permissions to use in Wikipedia are not suitable to host an image here. They are also not suitable for Wikipedia ;) We need a free license. Ankry (talk) 17:44, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
I think there has been a misunderstanding.
The previous picture that was uploaded was indeed taken from social media (Facebook).
However, upon learning that pictures from social media or other website, another picture with the title File:Soto Monir.jpg was uploaded which has not been on Facebook. Instead Mr. Soto Monir (the person whose picture and Wikipedia article this is) himself sent that picture via WhatsApp message to upload in the Wikipedia page (the picture was taken by myself on his phone).
I hope this file gets undeleted as soon as possible.
@Bengal993: Well, while the deletion reason does not seem appropriate, we expect that images uploaded as Own work should have complete camera settings info in EXIF (be the "original" versions from the camera). This one has no EXIF. So you need either to upload the original image version with EXIF or to follow the VRT procedure. Ankry (talk) 20:42, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Reason: deleted via COM:Deletion requests/File:Binondo-Intramuros Bridge (view from Binondo side) 2022-04-10.jpg. However, as per an email response from the w:en:Department of Public Works and Highways, thru DPWH UPMO Roads Management Cluster 1 B Project Director Benjamin A. Bautista (via email reply to my query last June 28, 2022), this bridge is not considered by the project team as a work of architecture but rather a work of engineering, despite having artistic features that blend in with the environment of downtown Manila/Pasig River area. Thus this does not possess a copyright, as it has no architectural elements. Request to restore as a non-architectural work of engineering and infrastructure. {{PD-structure|PHL}} applies. JWilz12345(Talk|Contrib's.)11:02, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Please let me know the reason why the image is deleted. That image wasn't my own work, but I mentioned the sources and provided all necessary informations that were needed. I completed a article and the image is needed there. If it can be recovered, please let me know as soon as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by তমালকৃষ্ণ মণ্ডল (talk • contribs) 07:51, 18 July 2022 (UTC) (UTC)
I request deletion since No one has uploaded this particular file and No one has an image about the New Mister and Miss Supranational Nepal logo on the Wikimedia Commons website as well as receiving a copyright Reason for the deletion Which IMO appears to be a mistake. So therefore I request the undeletion for the reasons mentioned above. Thank you!
I can't view it, but I believe it is his official portrait from 1920 when he was seated as bishop of Budweis which would be "PD-EU-no author disclosure". --RAN (talk) 01:54, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
If you can find copies online and there is no attribution there either, then we have performed our due diligence and it is anonymous. We have a whole category called Category:Anonymous paintings. The image was deleted because of the wrong license, not the anonymous status. --RAN (talk) 01:57, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Not done, Barta was consecrated as bishop from 1921, not 1920 and remained in office until 1940. There is generally no reason to believe that a 20th century work of this quality is made by somebody anonymous, whose name has never been published. The paintings in Category:Anonymous paintings are mostly more than 120 years old. Thuresson (talk) 21:24, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
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The logo is publicly available here:
https://www.psi.edu/about/who-we-are
This logo may be protected by copyright. The use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States.
{{Trademarked}}{{TOO-US}}
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ad65718 (talk • contribs) 02:48, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
@LFranken01: To prove your identity, please send an email from asia.typek@gmail.com to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org, indicating that your Wikimedia account username is LFrkanken01 and asking for your account to be marked as verified. For more details, you can see COM:VRT. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠07:42, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Why deleted? It is used in Category:KELLER+BRENNECKE. I don't understand the deletion reason that it is not used in an article. This is the case with most logos. From the 80,000,000 pictures the most have no article. But this is no reason for deletion. In Commons:Project scope i can read
Must be a media file. Support
Must be of an allowable free file format. Support
Must be freely licensed or public domain. Support It is own work of User:Tobiqn (Uploader)
Must be realistically useful for an educational purpose. Support as all other logos information for users with interest about it.
Must not contain only excluded educational content. Support
So there is in my opinion no reason for deletion. If one see no benefit to this file, there are others who do find value in it. Since the file complies with the basic principles and some users value it, there is no reason left to delete it. Please restore the file. -- Triple C 85| User talk |10:42, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
@Thuresson: however, a file must not only exist if an article exists. This is independent of each other. With this reasoning, you would have to delete all files without article. This is nonsense. -- Triple C 85| User talk |10:00, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
The essence of Commons:Fair use mentioned by Thuresson is that a third party may not appropriate someone's logo for commercial purposes and may not use a copyright holder's logo in circumstances that diminish its value.[1] Wikipedia is a no-profit organization, and there is no commercial purposes here.
DMacks "Why is it so important to you that this image be on commons?"
Descriptive fair use permits use of another’s trademark to describe the user’s products or services, rather than as a trademark to indicate the source of the goods or services. Nominative fair use permits use of another’s trademark to refer to the trademark owner’s goods and services associated with the mark.[2]
A trademark cannot be used for a commercial purpose without permission from the owner.[3]
Fair Use:Under the Fair Use doctrine a trademark may be used without permission for commentary or criticism as long as the purpose of the use is not the same purpose of the trademark. This doctrine includes informational, editorial, and comparative purposes. One important caveat here is that the use of the trademark must be relevant to the work.[4]
Trademark "ownership" is not absolute. Are there any circumstances under which you would be permitted to use a trademark without the prior permission of its owner? The short answer is that you can use a trademark belonging to another person or company if you use the mark for: (1) informational or editorial purposes to identify specific products and services, or (2) if your use is part of an accurate comparative product statement.[5]
Not done: Do not recreate closed requests without new arguments. Fair use is not accepted on Commons. Please read COM:L. --Yann (talk) 20:46, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
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Comment the file was uploaded in Feb 2022 and the abovementioned consensus concerns files uploaded before 2014. For newer uploads we need an evidence of US copyright status. @Fma12: What is this photo copyright status in US? The policy requirement that the hosted images needs to be free in both: US and the country of origin has not been ever changed. Ankry (talk) 08:33, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Wikimedia Argentina is not WMF, the Wikimedia Commons operator. Wikimedia Argentina can host the image on their own website if they wish. Wikimedia Commons volunteers are bound with policies established by WMF. In order to host this image, we need a free license from the photographer using VRT. Or at least their clear declaration that they will not execute their copyright using the US legal system. I assume, the published knew whom they received the image from, so they are able to identify the photographer if they wish. Theoretically, the image may be hosted under US Fair Use in wikis that accept Fair Use, but the Commons community rejected Fair Use.
Accepting images that are free in the country of origin only while being Fair Use in US would be a significant change in Wikimedia Commons policy. Such a change would require community decision and cannot be limitted to Argentinian photos only. And this page is not the right venue to discuss policy changes. Ankry (talk) 23:09, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
The URAA decision you link to was shortly thereafter superseded; see the COM:URAA link from that discussion. The policy (also mentioned in Commons:Licensing then became: A mere allegation that the URAA applies to a file cannot be the sole reason for deletion. If the end result of copyright evaluation is that there is significant doubt about the freedom of a file under U.S. or local law, the file must be deleted in line with the precautionary principle. So yes, the URAA can be used as the sole reason for deletion, as long as you can show by a country's historical laws that the work was indeed under copyright protection on January 1, 1996. Since it is plainly stated that the photo was under copyright in Argentina until 2011, it was protected in 1996. Carl Lindberg (talk) 12:17, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm the press officer of the band called Gemelli DiVersi.
Have uploaded two files:
Gemelli DiVersi 2022_1.jpg which is in the template as new band photo (they were 4 and now are 2)
Gemelli DiVersi 2022_2.jpg as new photo in the body of the description which has been deleted
Not done: We need a permission coming directly from the copyright holder which is usually the original photographer. --De728631 (talk) 20:05, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
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I believe the terms of PD-Russia were met, Commons:Publication is when a photo leaves the custody of the photographer, not only appearing in a magazine or book. I could see if the photo was shown to have been found in a cache of images that remained with a photographer as negatives or proof sheets, like the Bain Collection, or a similar archive. --RAN (talk) 16:57, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): Where did you find in Commons policies that when a photo leaves the custody of the photographer is an equivalent of publication? In many countries presenting a photo to the general public, eg. in a gallery, museum, displaying it on the wall in a publicly available space, or even being available in a public library is considered publication (being available to the general public). However, in any case we need a reliable date of such act. Being stored in an archive is not considered publication as archive content is generally not available to the general public. Ankry (talk) 20:57, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
You are thinking of the display of an original artwork, where no copy has been made, like a painting. With photographs I already provided the link to Commons:Publication with the legal definition. The Berne Convention quotation is: 'The definition of "publication" [is] "distribution of copies to the general public with the consent of the author"'. I agree 100%, if this image came from an archive and was downloaded from the Internet it may have never been made public. However no one was able to find it online out of the 500 billion images online. It appears to be scanned from a personal collection, so an original camera negative (the creative product) was copied to a print and made public (no longer in the possession of the creator, like all photos where you pay a photographer to take a photo) , presumably at the time of creation. If we had evidence that it was from a cache of negatives that were never made public, I would agree to deletion. --RAN (talk) 22:29, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Yes, distribution of copies to general public. When, where, and in which way copies of this photo were distributed to general public? Then add 50/70 years (depending on the country of distribution) and if you receive a date that is before 1.1.1996, we can host the photo. The date is crucial. If you cannot find the exact date, provide the earliest documented. Ankry (talk) 09:18, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Why are you emphasizing "general public" like it is a magic word, the general public is someone other than the photographer and their immediate family. --RAN (talk) 02:00, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Because it is crucial here. And general public means something else than a limitted group of people. Ankry (talk) 17:45, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi Ran, you wrote "If we had evidence that it was from a cache of negatives that were never made public, I would agree to deletion". This is not how Commons works. For old images, we start assuming a work is copyrighted, and we need evidence it is not copyrighted, per COM:EVID. If clear evidence of a PD-situation is lacking, the image must be deleted. (In this case I saw no evidence that this image is in PD). Ellywa (talk) 12:32, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Done: There is no reason to believe that this image was not "delivered to the public", which is the legal definition of publication. Actually, that's the only way it could possibly come to us. This is within our requirement of "significant doubt". --Yann (talk) 10:21, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
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The flag shouldn't have been deleted because it is not a work of Vietnamese government. But it is the traditional flag of Caodaism used by Caodaists over the world.
@Baokhang48812002: In order to host the image here you need to provide evidence that it is not copyright (eg. due to copyright expiration) of freely licensed by the copyright holder (if still a copyrighted design). Being used does not determine the copyright status. Ankry (talk) 09:09, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
my work is all professional and legal so don't misjudge what you don't know, I am ready to get out there and show you all what the real talent is all about. Don't take the special one for granted.
I request undeletion because my work is all original and legal, no copyright or whatsoever
@Maars Boy: This seems to be about File:Mars Boy picture.jpg. It was deleted as "Personal photo by non-contributors", nobody said anything about copyright. Please instead tell why the image is in project scope, i.e. why it is useful for Wikimedia Commons. –LPfi (talk) 19:26, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
I have been trying to upload this image and other content on Wikipedia on behalf of LIFE Eth Zurich. I am a volunteer at the project office. Everything I am doing this work with their permission, but the contents are being deleted here on Wikipedia for no reason. I am requesting the undeletion of the image - "LIFE-beams + planets.jpg" and other content that I upload there.
Whoever you are, you are required by policy to provide an evidence of free license unless you privide your personal unpublished work, which this image is not. The evidence is providing a link to a webpage where the declared license has been granted by the copyright holder, or ensuring that the copyright holder sent a free license permission following VRT. If you are authorized to grant a license and you can prove that, then you need to follow the VRT procedure yourself (granting a license is managing the intelectual property of copyright holder). Ankry (talk) 17:58, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
This file showing silverware by Emmy Roth was deleted in 2017 by User:Jameslwoodward per Commons:Deletion requests/File:EmmyRoth TeaCaddyAndExtractPot MIA 982761121.jpg with the rationale “The Germany copyrights for the works have expired and it is very unlikely that they have notice, so they are almost certainly PD in the USA. The photo, however, is clearly under copyright and there is no evidence of a free license on the MIA web site.” At the web site of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, I just found [9] which states “Use of text and images in which Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) holds the copyright is permitted, with attribution, under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.” It's accessible from [10] if you click on Rights. I don't know if that policy is new or if it already existed in 2017, but as I understand it it means that the MIA photo can be used under a CC-BY-4.0 license. --Rosenzweigτ17:00, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
File was nominated for speedy deletion. Copyright holder has subsequently sent proof of copyright.— Preceding unsigned comment added by OpticalBloom241 (talk • contribs) 09:02, July 24, 2022 (UTC)
(Non-administrator comment) If the copyright holder has emailed their COM:CONSENT to Wikimedia VRT (formerly called Wikimedia OTRS) and the email is verified by a VRT member, then the file will eventually be restored. There's no need for you to re-upload the file and doing so only will likely lead to it being deleted again. You need to be patient and let the VRT process run its course. The copyright holder should've gotten a reply from VRT which contained a ticket number, and they can use that number to make further enquiries about the status of their email if the process seems to be taking unreasonably long. Please remember that VRT members are volunteers and they check emails when they have time; so, "unreasonably long" probably means more than a few weeks. If you know what the ticket number is, you can ask about the status of the email at COM:VRTN; however, VRT members won't be able discuss specifics with anyone other than the copyright holder. If there's a problem with the email, the VRT member who reviewed it will most likely email the copyright holder and explain what the issue is. If you've uploaded other files that have been deleted because their license couldn't be verified or because they were assessed as being a possible copyright violation, don't re-upload them again since that only likely going to lead to a Commons administrator warning you not to do so. Do something like that too many times, and your account might end up blocked. Just follow the VRT process for those files as well. If you've uploaded files that have been tagged for lacking permission and you know that the copyright holder has already sent in an email, you can add the template {{Permission pending}} to the file's page to let the administrator who reviews the file for speedy deletion know that an email has been sent in and is awaiting review. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:35, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
The Governor of South Dakota's website includes an official portrait of Governor Noem with the caption "CC by 4.0 for Wikipedia." Wouldn't this be available to be used for Wikipedia (and by extension commons?). If not, what is the issue in this case, and how can this be remedied? --InTheLoops1 (talk) 17:45, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
Yes it should, unless that statement is interpreted as "only for Wikipedia" i.e. that license is not valid on any other website, which in reality means it's not CC-BY-4.0 and not free and should be deleted. But, should not be a speedy deletion either way. Could mark the image as {{LicenseReview}}, so a license reviewer might get to it. Or, add a topic on COM:VPC to see what people think. Or, convert to a regular DR and have the conversation there. It should not be speedy, but until it does actually get deleted, UNDR is not really appropriate (although if it does get deleted, the conversation could be here). Carl Lindberg (talk) 17:58, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
Correct image and meta tags reuploaded along with license terms from the source website www.ncycle.net
The uploader provided better context on their talk page for this file and the previous one. The source page at ncycle.net/media-kit/ now mentions that the files are under CC-BY-SA 4.0, which was not the case at the time of deletion. In addition, the file metadata originally mentioned Enrico Marotta as the copyright holder, which was a carryover from a rental camera.
Done: A free licence is now avalaible at the source website, so the files were undeleted and the attribution was adjusted. The duplicate upload has been deleted. --De728631 (talk) 19:06, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
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Il file è assolutamente catturato dal sottoscritto. Tutto quello che è presente a sfondo è opera del sottoscritto, tanto che nello Start viene persino indicato il mio nome. Siete pregati di non richiedere eliminazioni. Grazie.
According to PD-Italy film still are only awarded 20 years protection. The movie was from 1960. There may have been others by this uploader improperly deleted that fall into this category. --RAN (talk) 09:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
I've fixed the source + description of the image file. The source that was mentioned in the deletion request doesn't stand valid for nomination to deletion.
As the original author is a Facebook user whose work was uploaded by the news site. I believe it should not deleted as the news source mentioned in the deletion request stands invalid.
I request this image be undeleted. The photo was taken by me, with my mobile phone camera, while visiting an art gallery. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZazaSRB (talk • contribs) 12:03, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Support Apparently the image was deleted not because of the derivative photograph but because of the original artwork that might still have been copyrighted. However, the original painter Milena Pavlović-Barili died in 1945. The image in question was created in her Belgrade period of work (1922-1926), so we can assume that the country of first publication was Yugoslavia. {{PD-Serbia}} and {{PD-US-expired}} are applicable. @ZazaSRB: Please note also that a faithful photograph of a public domain painting does not create a new copyright for you, so the CC-by-sa licence you granted for this photo would have been invalid. Your photo will be treated as public domain like the original painting. De728631 (talk) 13:44, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
The photographic license might still be valid in some jurisdictions so can still be helpful; we have the {{Licensed-PD-Art}} tag for that situation. Support since the painting seems to be PD in both the U.S. and the country of origin (and would be PD-1996 if not PD-US-expired). Carl Lindberg (talk) 13:50, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Alright, thank you. Does this mean the photo will be returned to Wikipedia? In that case, I have a few photos of her paintings from her Belgrade years and would also try to undelete them. ZazaSRB (talk) 14:08, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
I think this photo should be undeleted, but another administrator will decide on this matter. If the undeletion is successful, you are welcome to list the other photos as well in a new request. De728631 (talk) 14:11, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Hallo,
Ik probeerde met andere namen dezelfde plaatjes weer te uploaden naar de wiki pagina van Sjouke Heins.
Blijkbaar kunnen die plaatjes ook weer geactiveerd worden zonder ze opnieuw te uploaden.
Het betreft de plaatjes:
File:20200110 Sjouke Heins atelier Nieuwgierig Is Wat Anders.jpg
File:20191031 Sjouke Heins Afrikaans meisje NAAM.jpg
File:20191003 Sjouke Heins Mariama De Gedroomde Bruid onvoltooid.jpg
en een posterplaatje met meerdere afbeeldingen, maar die kon onder een andere naam wel opnieuw geupload worden.
Reden: de erfgenaam van Sjouke Heins (die ongehuwd en kinderloos was), i.c. zijn broer Harry Heins geeft er toestemming voor om die plaatjes bij de wiki pagina van Sjouke Heins te plaatsen.
Hij is voor expliciete toestemming te benaderen via het volgende mailadres:
"Harry en Anita Heins"
Alvast bedankt!
mvg, Otto B. Wiersma ( op wiki te bereiken via ottobw )
I would like this picture, which was speedy deleted back in the day, to be recovered. This would contribute to the Wikipedia article "Samer Hassan" (the researcher shown in the picture), with articles currently in three Wikipedia languages and Wikidata. Originally, it was speedy deleted because of being considered a personal photo by a non-contributor, which it is not the case. I'm available for further clarifications. Sadly, the wiki editor that deleted it (User:Patrick Rogel) passed away so I am unable to discuss it with him.--Nizarhsn (talk) 21:33, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
Oppose The Terms of Use at https://engineeringhistoricalmemory.com/TermsOfUse.php contradict your claim of "open-access".
Info Draft at en:Draft:Engineering Historical Memory. Thuresson (talk) 07:43, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Not done: as per above. --Yann (talk) 16:42, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Support IrokoTV is a very large corporate account, and after checking several of their other videos I can say that they don't blanket apply CC to all their uploads, i.e. they intentionally marked this one as CC. I feel like we shouldn't be second-guessing whether large corporate accounts are authorized to release material under a free license. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:13, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Done Files restored onto a single description page. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 08:10, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Comment If Dwight Smith Young is the requester's great-grandfather, and the image is a selfie, as claimed in the file description, then it is possible that the requester is an heir and has the right to freely license the image. However, "I agree to the publishing of it on the wikipedia page" is not a free license; we cannot restore the image on that basis. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 15:27, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
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