User talk:TheTrolleyPole

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File:Finch West LRT - MSF conceptual design.JPG

File:Finch West LRT - MSF conceptual design.JPG has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Metropolitan diversion, Yonge Street south at Farnham Avenue.jpg

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No required license templates were detected at this file page. Please correct it, or if you have any questions please check my FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Yours sincerely, Jarekt (talk) 12:07, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Duplicate category

Pease see Category:Art in the Toronto subway and RT for existing. Secondarywaltz (talk) 02:55, 7 February 201

Public art

The Upload your own work page says: "...these are not permitted, so don't upload them! ... Photographs of art, statues ...". The prohibition seems excessively broad. Does it include permanent statues and arguably artistic fountains in a public park? Does it apply to photos of stone carvings permanently attached to the exterior of a building visible to the public? Does it apply to photos of artfully designed buildings? What about public art in a subway station? TheTrolleyPole (talk) 23:57, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

• Laws on this are different for each country. For example, Germany is very liberal on this, France very tight, and the U.S. somewhere between. What country are you in? - Jmabel ! talk 00:10, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
  • Canada. TheTrolleyPole (talk) 00:18, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

In Canada it’s fine to publish derivatives of three-dimensional objects that are permanently located in public places. That includes buildings, sculptures, &c. but not murals or posters. See COM:FOP#Canada.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:40, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer. Are there exceptions to the prohibition on photos of murals? Commons already has a photo of a famous mural in Toronto on a building overlooking a public park. TheTrolleyPole (talk) 01:07, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

That may have slipped through the cracks as a case of ‘Flickrwashing‘ (not necessarily deliberate), but it depends on the mural’s copyright status. The only exceptions of which I’m aware would be where the mural itself has been freely licensed by the artist, its copyright has expired, or it was uncopyrightable (too simple or non-creative) in the first place.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 01:21, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Original entry — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheTrolleyPole (talk • contribs) 01:37, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, carbarn near Walter Street.jpg

Copyright status: File:Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, carbarn near Walter Street.jpg

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This action was performed automatically by AntiCompositeBot (talk) 08:09, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Inquiry

Inquiry — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheTrolleyPole (talk • contribs) 23:08, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

I received a notice that a photo I uploaded "does not have sufficient information on its copyright status." The Licensing section had the message "Public Domain as per Toronto Public Library" and one can verify that by verifying the source. So why was the photo tagged with a warning? TheTrolleyPole (talk) 15:00, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

I'm trying tp respond to User:Billinghurst who has nominated one of my uploads for deletion. He said to place a {{Talkback}} at the bottom of his user talk page. I can't figure out how to do it. I go there and try to key the info and it won't accept a keystroke. I try the bottom of the page and the bottom the the index to the page and I am unsuccessful. I will appreciate help.Janvermont (talk) 15:19, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

• @Janvermont: You can edit a user talk page just like you edit any other page. User the Edit button (or, if relevant, the '+' button, etc.)
• Also, if you refer to User:Billinghurst here (like I just did) instead of just User:Billinghurst, that will notify him. - Jmabel ! talk 16:25, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
• "Public Domain as per Toronto Public Library" is a fine thing to write in the permissions field of the {{Information}} template, but it isn't a license tag. I've added {{PD-old-assumed}}, which is pretty safe for 1894. Someone else may want to add something more precise. - Jmabel ! talk 16:28, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, User talk:Jmabel, for setting up the tag. I have a more general question. Some photo sites (such as the Toronto Public Library) explicitly say that specific photos are in the public domain even though some may be less than 70 years old. In general, what is the licence tag that I should use for such public domain photos? TheTrolleyPole (talk) 20:14, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

@TheTrolleyPole: The trick is to figure out the reason for which the organisation says that a specific photo is in the public domain, which public domain it is speaking of, and then see if it fits with the requirements of Wikimedia Commons. For example, in the case of the photo File:Toronto and Scarboro' Electric Railway, carbarn near Walter Street.jpg, the organisation, being the Toronto Public Library, when describing the photo as "Public Domain", likely means the public domain in Canada. You can conclude that the reason for this description by the Library is because the photo, documented as published in 1894, was created in a year that makes the photo in the public domain in Canada. However, Wikimedia Commons is published from the United States, so to be legally published on Wikimedia Commons the photo must be in the public domain in the United States. Which it is indeed, because it meets the condition of PD-US-expired. By an additional condition of its internal policy, Commons requires that the photo must also be in the public domain in the country where it was first published. The Library says that this photo was published in the Toronto Globe. From the context, it is reasonable to assume that it was first published in Canada. So, the second condition of Commons is met by PD-Canada or PD-Canada-anon. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:36, 15 June 2020 (UTC)