File:Riverton–Latham, Illinois EF2 tornado March 31, 2023.png

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The EF2 Riverton–Latham, Illinois near Riverton on March 31, 2023.
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Reason for the nomination:
This photograph was taken by w:Jeff Frame in the United States in 2023. He published it on his X feed,[1] and currently offers prints of it for sale.[2] When you right-click on that image, the following copyright notice appears: "These photos are copyrighted by their respective owners. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited."

There is no claim that Frame was a US Federal government employee performing their duties, or that this image is ineligible for copyright for any other reason.

As a photo taken in the United States after 1989, copyright came into being as soon as it was made.

This image was uploaded to Commons under rationales expressed in the {{PD-NWS}} template at the time; that

  1. when the weather.gov general disclaimer says that material not in the public domain will be specifically noted, it means that it must be published with a formal copyright notice. Whereas in reality, not only has the NWS never promised any specific form of notation, there is ample evidence to demonstrate this is not their general practice. This belief also chooses to ignore the words elsewhere in the disclaimer that state that third party images are used by the NWS under license, and to contact the third-party creators for re-use.
  2. the words of a NWS Sioux City regional office policy that placed some public submissions in the public domain somehow applied to this image, although there is nothing to connect it with that office. (The still was published by the Central Illinois office).
Without clearer evidence that Frame intended to place this photo in the public domain, we need to delete this under COM:PRP.
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Summary

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Description
English: The EF2 Riverton–Latham, Illinois near Riverton on March 31, 2023.
Date
Source https://www.weather.gov/ilx/TornadoEvent_3-31-23
Author Jeff Frame

Licensing

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As of September 2024, the copyright and licensing status of this file is under review.

A Commons contributor has asserted in good faith that this file is in the public domain either because:

  • it is a work of the National Weather Service, and as a work of the US Federal Government, ineligible for copyright or
  • a third party might have submitted it to a National Weather Service regional office under terms and conditions that placed it in the public domain. For example, the La Crosse, Louisville, Norman, Omaha, Peachtree City, and Sioux Falls offices are known to have had such terms and conditions for certain contests and other public outreach at various points in time (see here for a complete list) or
  • it is free of copyright for some other reason (for example, it contains no copyrightable elements, or its copyright has expired)

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Public domain
This image is in the public domain because it was stored on the web servers of the U.S. National Weather Service. NWS-created images are automatically public domain in the U.S. since the NWS is a part of the U.S. government. However, the NWS sites also host non-NWS images which have been submitted by individuals: these are generally shown as "Courtesy of ...". Such images have explicitly been released to the public domain by the copyright owner as part of the upload process.
  • As stated at https://www.weather.gov/disclaimer/: "The information on National Weather Service Web servers and Web sites is in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the public."
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Thus, all* images on NWS servers are public domain (including "Courtesy of ..." and “Photo by ...” images) unless specifically stated otherwise through a copyright (©) watermark.
*A deletion discussion in November 2023 ruled that Getty Images on the web servers of NWS, are to be considered copyrighted, even without a copyright (©) watermark and are the sole exception to this rule.

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