Commons talk:Commissioned works

By country

Are rules around commissioned works radically different per country and / or territory? If so then they may need to be listed separately. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 09:06, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

• I tried to add Mongolia but it wouldn't load the section, I just copied and pasted the thing from the Philippines. I don't know what I'm doing wrong here... --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:19, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
  • You did it right, but the Mongolia page had to be marked for translation by a translation administrator before it could be transcluded. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:51, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Great essay

This is very useful as this issue arises so frequently.

Besides cases by country we should also clearly describe common cases so that users understand what we are discussing

• individual hires photographer, as for portrait or event
• organization hires photographer, like university getting faculty portraits or museum photographing collection
• "human tripod" or "tourist photos" - a person directs a friend or passerby to photograph them, and claims that they directed the photo while the person who operated the camera was never a copyright holder
• drafting sketches - design and architecture where the organization doing the major project may not have the rights to working notes

Perhaps we also provide a link to acceptable text for transferring copyright.

Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:15, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: , these are all great ideas. I just wanted to start this page because "{{Welcomeorganisation}}" would otherwise have a redlink. This page would be important for organisations that wish to donate to Wikimedia Commons and as nobody "owns" this you are free to add these improvements. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:18, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

UK

• Involved page to add the COMM section: COM:CRT/United Kingdom

The rule on commissioned works is found at https://www.dacs.org.uk/knowledge-base/factsheets/commissioned-works . @Donald Trung, Aymatth2, and Bluerasberry: . In a nutshell: before 1989 - copyright usually vests in the commissioner, but since 1989 usually with the artist unless there is an agreement between the artist and the commissioner. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 14:45, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Update: I now added the rule on commissioned works for UK at Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United Kingdom#Commissioned works. It still needs to be translated by a translation admin in order to be transcluded here, however, and the reference I added is situated outside the section (in the references section, following the citation formats of other references in the CRT/UK page). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 12:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

The Netherlands

This source covers the Netherlands quite well. But I know that we need specific quotes from Dutch copyright ©️ law to add these. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 12:02, 9 February 2024 (UTC)