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- How to add a copyright tag to an existing image
- On the description page of the image (the one whose name starts File:), click Edit this page.
- From the page Wikipedia:File copyright tags, choose the appropriate tag:
- For work you created yourself, use one of the ones listed under the heading "For image creators".
- For a work downloaded from the internet, please understand that the vast majority of images from the internet are not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. Exceptions include images from flickr that have an acceptable license, images that are in the public domain because of their age or because they were created by the United States federal government, or images used under a claim of fair use. If you do not know what you are doing, please post a link to the image here and ask BEFORE uploading it.
- For an image created by someone else who has licensed their image under the GFDL, an acceptable Creative Commons license, or has released their image into the public domain, this permission must be documented. Please see Requesting copyright permission for more information.
- Type the name of the tag (e.g.; {{GFDL-self}}), not forgetting {{ before and }} after, in the edit box on the image's description page.
- Remove any existing tag complaining that the image has no tag (for example, {{untagged}})
- Hit Save page.
- If you still have questions, go on to "How to ask a question" below.
- How to ask a question
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- Note for those replying to posted questions
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Contents
- 1 i found a "free" image.. how can you help me know if it works for Wiki..?
- 2 Icons for the Disinfectant antivirus software
- 3 Request to checking eligibility of an image
- 4 Is this a copyvio?
- 5 Photo copyright ask/deletion of Smt. Usha Datar - what needs to be done?
- 6 Images from the article Vladimir Lenin
- 7 Archie McDiarmid photo - PD or or not in USA?
- 8 Upload to commons or not?
- 9 No copyright tag, how to fix?
- 10 "Hi Hi Hi" / "C Moon" by Wings
- 11 wikipedia file upload wizard is horrible!
- 12 License tagging for File:Gaylord Sangston Truesdell, the artist in his studio. Courtesy of the Frick Collection - Frick Art Reference Library Archives.jpg
- 13 Blurred Lines
- 14 Fair use
- 15 Vanessa Ferlito images
- 16 File:Doordash logo.png - copyrightable in the US?
i found a "free" image.. how can you help me know if it works for Wiki..?
i found a "free" image.. how can you help me know if it works for Wiki..? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Organist00 (talk • contribs) 02:07, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- Can you link to it? Also I assume "free" as in free - some people think it means "freely available".Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:13, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Icons for the Disinfectant antivirus software
For the Disinfectant software, there is a color icon and a B&W icon. Would either of these two icons be below the threshold of originality for the US? --Elegie (talk) 04:34, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- As a follow-up, my guess is that the color icon is copyrightable, but that the B&W icon just might be below the US TOO. --Elegie (talk) 04:35, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- If it helps, a screenshot with the B&W icon for Disinfectant is shown in this blog entry (the icon is under the "April 7, 1995" text) and a number of icons for Disinfectant (including color and B&W icons) are shown in a screenshot at this archive (search for "Programmes malveillants sous mac [maj 31/05]".) For the article on the Disinfectant antivirus software, it would seem useful for an icon to be added to the info box if at all possible. --Elegie (talk) 08:05, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Request to checking eligibility of an image
I would like to get this image from a 1901 French magazine checked for eligibility for use in an article I am working on. I have discussed my concerns on its talk page. I am confident it would not be appropriate for Wikimedia Commons as it is was placed in the public domain by the French National Library for non-commercial use. Because of its age, have I used the correct licence for acceptable use on Wikipedia? If not, I'd rather have it deleted now than use it in a GA-nominated article and then have it removed later. Many thanks Parkywiki (talk) 02:06, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- It was published before 1923, so PD-US works for using it on en.wiki. However, I question how the French can put it to PD and then claim only for non-commercial use. PD means there are zero restrictions on the image use. The situation sounds similar to the National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Foundation copyright dispute, in which there the NPG claimed that their hi-res scans of works that were clear in the PD were copyrighted. For the time being please use the image here, but you might want to ask at Commons to get clarity on the French PD/copyright issue. --MASEM (t) 02:13, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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- The author is not unknown. The work is signed.
- On en.wikipedia, a more specific tag and parameter might be {{PD-art|Pd-1923-abroad}}. If you want to be hyper-safe and you want the file to be kept on en.wikipedia even if it gets copied to Commons, you can add the template "Keep local".
- On Commons, the problem is to find the information about the author.
- The file will be kept on Commons if you provide evidence that the author died before 1946, to conform to the policy of Commons. You would categorize the file in Commons:Category:1901 Le Petit Journal, a subcategory of Commons:Category:Le Petit Journal.
- Commons might accept the file if you show that, after a serious research, it was impossible to find the year of the death of the author, but the status of the file on Commons may remain uncertain, because it can't be assumed that an author who was active in 1901 died before 1946.
- About the matter of the possible copyrightability in some countries of reproductions of public domain works, the policy of Wikimedia and Commons is summarized on Commons:Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag, Commons:Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs and Commons:Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag. There are disputes from museums in the United Kingdom, Germany and France, about some aspects. That might affect some local projects. But Commons accepts reproductions of public domain works.
- The statements on the BNF websites are weak on two counts:
- The information about the copyright of the original works is often incomplete and unspecific. When it says "public domain", sometimes you can figure out a reason why it is indeed in the public domain, but sometimes you really must do your own research to determine the copyright status of the works.
- The claim about law 78-753 du 17 juillet 1978 is a different matter. This law is a freedom of access to information law to facilitate the use of documents by the public. When, instead, some administrations attempt to use this law to do the opposite and attempt to restrict the use of public domain works, that is, IMO, abusive. See also Commons:Commons:Village pump/Archive/2011/06#Cultural public data in France.
- -- Asclepias (talk) 15:20, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you - these are immensely helpful contributions, and I will look into the links you have given to understand them further. I conclude that I am safe to keep the image on en.wikipedia, but should consider changing the template. I really appreciate the idea of flagging a file to be kept locally. From past experience, I have no confidence in Wikimedia administrators being prepared to accept that evidence is actively being sought to support or investigate the status of an image once it has been flagged for deletion. If anyone thinks such complex matters can be initiated, investigated and resolved within 7-10 days, they are not living in the real world; I do not think Wikimedia administrators reside there. Parkywiki (talk) 00:03, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Is this a copyvio?
Our Norman Birnbaum article includes some dubious wording that I thought looked like it was copy-pasted from a blurb on a book or some such, so I Googled and found this. It seems quite likely that this external bio's wording and this Wikipedia edit from nine years ago have some "common ancestry":
TruthDig bio | Our article |
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Birnbaum is a founding editor of the New Left Review, and is a member of the editorial board of The Nation. He advises parties, unions and political groups on both sides of the Atlantic. | A member of the founding editorial board of New Left Review, he has been active in politics on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been an advisor to US trade unions and members of the US Congress, as well as to a number of social movements and political parties in Europe. |
he is currently writing a memoir. | He is presently writing a memoir. |
It's entirely possible that this was just a sloppy attempt to change the text just enough so as not to be a copyvio, and the text that was consulted was the exact text I found, but if that's the case then is copy-pasting the words "on both sides of the Atlantic" okay?
Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:13, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- I am giving a personal opinion here. I think the rewording is sufficient to avoid copyright issues. There is a limited number of ways of writing a very brief potted biography. I also don't think it amounts to WP:PLAGIARISM in its context in the article for similar reasons. The edit you have pointed out seems to have been by the subject himself (edit comment and username) so WP:COI is relevant but in this case I don't think the article has been biassed by the one edit. However, by current standards a contribution on the talk page would have been preferable. Back in 2007 no one considered that sort of thing. If the effect of the edit is still unsatisfactory I suggest changing the article appropriately. Thincat (talk) 11:32, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Photo copyright ask/deletion of Smt. Usha Datar - what needs to be done?
Hello,
I recently uploaded a couple of photographs of Smt. Usha Datar. These were provided by Smt. Usha Datar and I have her verbal permission to upload these.
Could you please let me know what needs to be done/corrected, so that these are not deleted from wikipedia, as there does not seem to be a need for any other licence to be obtained.
Thanks, Raophi (talk) 16:02, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- I presume you are talking about File:Kalamandalam Usha Datar.jpg and File:Smt. Usha Datar.jpg. Obviously these images were not taken by the subject herself, so she cannot give you permission to use them here under a free licence, unless she also acquired the copyright. Usually it is the photographer to own the copyright, so you will have to get the copyright owner to verify their permission by following the procedure found at WP:CONSENT. ww2censor (talk) 22:21, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Images from the article Vladimir Lenin
I am currently reviewing the article Vladimir Lenin for good article status, and one of the criteria is "images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content", which is clear enough. The problem is in determining whether images are public domain in the USA or not.
The two images I am most confused by are this one and this one.
The first was published in 1924 (in the USSR; I can't see when in the US), and so as I understand it, it might remain in copyright until 2019 if the copyright was correctly renewed. The question for this then becomes: is there a simple way I can use to determine whether or not the copyright was renewed?
The second is tagged as being in the public domain in the US, but potentially not in the ninth circuit. As wikipedia is based in California, does that mean that it is not public domain for wikipedia's purposes?
Additionally, there are a whole bunch of other images in the article published before 1923. Am I right in thinking that these are all in the public domain in the US?
Finally, there are three more images which have neither an author nor a date of publication associated with them. Two this and this must have been produced before 1895, as their subjects were dead (in the case of Marx) or dying (Engels died in the middle of 1895) by then. The third seems to be from the Russian Civil War (1917-20), and was presumably published during the Civil War, but I don't know that for certain. Can anyone shed any light on whether these are okay? Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 16:31, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- For Pogrzeb Lenina1924, while you can search the US Copyright office, I believe that's limited to only more recent records and to search during that time you'd have to get the physical records. I would safely assume it as non-free.
- For Tov lenin ochishchaet, I believe that the WP servers (and thus jurisdiction) is Virgina or Florida, meaning that the 9th circuit issue doesn't apply. It still is important to tag it with that to alert those in the 9th circuit of the the issue of reuse. That can be kept PD with the 9th circuit note.
- For the other images published before 1923, you are correct that they are in the public domain.
- The last three images really depend on whether they were published or not. Just because we can date the images doesn't mean that's the date for publication, which is the key factor. That said, the first two images appear to be from a site that asserts that the material is in public domain, which is a reasonable claim based on the age, and since they are at commons, they should be okay. Similarly the last one definitely looks like pre-1923, and since it's at commons, it should be okay too. --MASEM (t) 21:08, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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- Thank you very much for such a clear and comprehensive answer. It makes such a nice change from reading about US copyright law! Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 21:41, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Archie McDiarmid photo - PD or or not in USA?
I found a photo for use on the article for Archie McDiarmid. The image is part of the City of Vancouver archives which provides detailed information about authorship and copyright status. It is public domain in Canada. However, I am unsure as to its status with respect to the US. Per the archive information, Aug. 1926 is the creation date and the creator is Thomson, Stuart (1881-1960). Would this be PD in US as well allowing it to be uploaded to Common? If not, then I would use it under fair use as the subject has been deceased since 1957. Thanks. -- Whpq (talk) 20:09, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- You'll have to treat this as non-free, but clearly acceptable for illustrating a deceased person. Per the copyright table, this falls into the section for works published abroad between 1923 and 1978, and we have to look to Canada's PD law for that. They are 50+life, so this would have been PD in Canada in 2010. However, this is after the January 1996 date, so per that table, the US still considers it to have a copyright until 95 years after publication. If we assume as early as 1926 (the photo date), this won't be PD until 2021 in the US. Hence we'll have to treat it non-free, but acceptable as a non-free. --MASEM (t) 21:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- This 1926 photograph entered public domain in Canada in 1977: year of creation+50+1. The amendment to the Copyright Act, which later changed the rule to life+50+1, did not restore copyrights to photographs that were already in the public domain. This photograph stayed in the public domain. The question about the U.S. copyright depends when and where the photo was published. This photo looks like one that would likely have been published. And the Vancouver archives website mentions that Thomson contributed to three Vancouver newspapers. It's very reasonable to think that the photo was published in Canada in 1926. And that it is in the public domain in the United States. -- Asclepias (talk) 22:50, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)Hmm, the charts between pub+50 + life+50 for Canada seem at some odds, But that said, researching this further, there seems to be something in Canadian copyright that all photographs before Jan 1 1949 are automatically PD (see [1]), regardless of anything else. So that would definitely make this PD too. --MASEM (t) 23:04, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll upload it as a non-free image. --Whpq (talk) 22:53, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- It actually might be free, but it cannot hurt now to upload a very-much usable image as non-free as we can switch the licenses later. (it's when we assume PD and might be wrong that's problematic) --MASEM (t) 23:04, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- I've uploaded a low resolution version at File:Archie McDiarmid.jpg. If we could determine for sure this is PD in the US, this would be great as we could then upload the high resolution verision. -- Whpq (talk) 01:31, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- It actually might be free, but it cannot hurt now to upload a very-much usable image as non-free as we can switch the licenses later. (it's when we assume PD and might be wrong that's problematic) --MASEM (t) 23:04, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
- This 1926 photograph entered public domain in Canada in 1977: year of creation+50+1. The amendment to the Copyright Act, which later changed the rule to life+50+1, did not restore copyrights to photographs that were already in the public domain. This photograph stayed in the public domain. The question about the U.S. copyright depends when and where the photo was published. This photo looks like one that would likely have been published. And the Vancouver archives website mentions that Thomson contributed to three Vancouver newspapers. It's very reasonable to think that the photo was published in Canada in 1926. And that it is in the public domain in the United States. -- Asclepias (talk) 22:50, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Upload to commons or not?
Hi, I have found pictures on the website of a museums website, the one I'm thinking of uploading is from betwen 1933-1936 and was taken in Canada. The website has a copyright section which says that the pictures can be used for educational purposes as long as the museum is credited. Can I upload one of those pictures to commons or should I do it somewhere else?
PS: This is a picture of a person who has been deceased since 2003, if that makes any difference.*Treker (talk) 21:30, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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- If the photograph was created in 1936, it is in the public domain in Canada since 1987. But to be used freely on en.wikipedia, it would have to be in the public domain in the United States and, for that, it would have had to be published. The problem in this case is that the Glenbow website seems to say that the photographs in their collection were unpublished [2]. The notion of publication is not obvious, but unless someone can find evidence, or can make a convincing case, that this photograph was published before 1989, it can probably not be considered as a free image on en.wikipedia. -- Asclepias (talk) 03:20, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Actually, any photo that is known to date before 1949 in Canada is PD in Canada, publication or not, and would automatically then be PD in the US. --MASEM (t) 03:33, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Nope. You must consider where the 1949 reference comes from. It is only one particular consequence, inside Canada, and on some types of photographs, of the calculation of the proper number of years, in application of the copyright rules and of their amendments. The rule was that the copyright in Canada of any photograph expired at the end of the 50th year after its creation. For example, any photograph created in 1923 is in the public domain in Canada since the beginning of 1974, any photograph created in 1948 is in the public domain in Canada since the beginning of 1999, etc. An important amendement to the Copyright Act was adopted in 1997 and came into force in 1999. From then, the rule for photographs of identified individual authorship (but not for photos of corporate authorship, which were the object of a later amendment, in 2013) became that their copyright expired at the end of the 50th year after the death of the author. That amendment was not retroactive, so the photographs for which the 50 years since creation had already passed remained in the public domain. Practically, counting backwards 50 years from the 1999 coming into force of that amendment, you can conclude that photographs created before 1949 had already passed the 50-years-from-creation time and thus they remained in the public domain. However, when considering the copyright of those photographs in the United States, you must remember that there is nothing special about the year 1949 as such. It is only the result to which one arrives when applying the proper calculation, creation year+50, to determine the last creation year to which the old copyright rule applies in Canada, counting backwards from 1999. In the United States, because of the URAA-related provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act, you must determine if the copyright on a published work had already expired in its country of origin before the URAA reference date. For determining the copyright status in the United states of Canadian works (published between 1923 and March 1989), the URAA reference year from which you must count 50 years backwards is 1996. That is to say, for photographs published in Canada before March 1989 and not published simultaneously (within six months) in the United States, you can conclude that any photograph created before 1946 is in the public domain in the United States. Note that photographs created in 1946, in 1947 and in 1948 are in the public domain in Canada but they are under copyright in the United States. Thus, the "rule of thumb", when considering the U.S. copyright of Canadian photographs, is "created before 1946". However, remember also that unpublished works and works published anywhere after February 1989 are directly under U.S. copyright. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:23, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- For the US, we accept a foreign work as PD if that work was PD in its originating country as of Jan. 1, 1996. My understanding of the Canadian copyright change is that up until 1997, photograph copyright started the moment the photo was taken (not published!) and 50yr beyond that (after 1997 the laws changed). So as of 1997, a 1936 photo had entered the Canadian PD (that happened in 1986 or 1987). So the US would treat it as PD as well. --MASEM (t) 16:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- As mentioned in my first answer, a photo created in 1936 entered the public domain in Canada in 1987, indeed. However, the statement "for the US, we accept a foreign work as PD if that work was PD in its originating country as of Jan. 1, 1996" applies only to foreign works that were in the scope of the copyright restoration provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act, that is to say, foreign works published before March 1989, but whose copyrights were not restored if their copyright in their country of origin had expired before the URAA reference date, 1996 in the case of Canada. The statement does not apply to foreign works that were not in the scope of the copyright restoration provisions, that is to say, works published after February 1989, which are under U.S. copyright independently of the copyright provisions of their country of origin. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:47, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, I see what you mean, US copyright for unpublished works ignores the country of origin for all purposes. But this raises a question of when the photo was "published" by the museum, in that simply having it as part of its collection that could be duplicated. The museum says 50 years old, so its quite possible they had this photo to offer before 1977 and the photo lacks copyright formalities, which then would trigger the PD aspect for US law. That said, that's a very narrow window and requirement, so yes, without deeper digging into the photo's history, we should assume it non-free, which doesn't mean it can't be used if this is for an article on the person photograhped who is now deceased, for example. --MASEM (t) 18:16, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- The man in the photograph is Stu Hart, he died in 2003. As of right now his article has two photos but both are in my opinion very inadequate in portraying who he was, one is of him as a baby and the other is of him as an 86 year old. (Which is also not a free image as far as I can tell.)
- He was a wrestler and the photo that is from Glenbow Museum shows that very well. I would very much like for it to be used in the article. If I can, how should I upload it?
- Thanks alot for all the information by the way.*Treker (talk) 19:47, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- I would agree that this photo under discussion is a much better representation of Hart; while there should be discussion at the Stu Hart talk page to determine which is best, you should be able to use this as a non-free image there to illustrate a notable, deceased person per NFCC, and if for some reason it actually turns out to be PD, hey, great. --MASEM (t) 21:34, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Ok. So that means I can upload it to commons or somewhere else? Thanks*Treker (talk) 21:39, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Not immediately to commons. Per Asclepias' logic on the copyright issues, that photo of Hart is copyrighted, so it can't go to commons. It is definitely possible to use on Hart's page. You can upload to en.wiki as a non-free (as a historic photo) with the Upload Wizard tool. You just might need to open discussion on that talk page about where to put the image, as the infobox or somewhere else, but that's outside the scope of MCQ. --MASEM (t) 22:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Ok. So that means I can upload it to commons or somewhere else? Thanks*Treker (talk) 21:39, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- I would agree that this photo under discussion is a much better representation of Hart; while there should be discussion at the Stu Hart talk page to determine which is best, you should be able to use this as a non-free image there to illustrate a notable, deceased person per NFCC, and if for some reason it actually turns out to be PD, hey, great. --MASEM (t) 21:34, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, I see what you mean, US copyright for unpublished works ignores the country of origin for all purposes. But this raises a question of when the photo was "published" by the museum, in that simply having it as part of its collection that could be duplicated. The museum says 50 years old, so its quite possible they had this photo to offer before 1977 and the photo lacks copyright formalities, which then would trigger the PD aspect for US law. That said, that's a very narrow window and requirement, so yes, without deeper digging into the photo's history, we should assume it non-free, which doesn't mean it can't be used if this is for an article on the person photograhped who is now deceased, for example. --MASEM (t) 18:16, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- As mentioned in my first answer, a photo created in 1936 entered the public domain in Canada in 1987, indeed. However, the statement "for the US, we accept a foreign work as PD if that work was PD in its originating country as of Jan. 1, 1996" applies only to foreign works that were in the scope of the copyright restoration provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act, that is to say, foreign works published before March 1989, but whose copyrights were not restored if their copyright in their country of origin had expired before the URAA reference date, 1996 in the case of Canada. The statement does not apply to foreign works that were not in the scope of the copyright restoration provisions, that is to say, works published after February 1989, which are under U.S. copyright independently of the copyright provisions of their country of origin. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:47, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- For the US, we accept a foreign work as PD if that work was PD in its originating country as of Jan. 1, 1996. My understanding of the Canadian copyright change is that up until 1997, photograph copyright started the moment the photo was taken (not published!) and 50yr beyond that (after 1997 the laws changed). So as of 1997, a 1936 photo had entered the Canadian PD (that happened in 1986 or 1987). So the US would treat it as PD as well. --MASEM (t) 16:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Nope. You must consider where the 1949 reference comes from. It is only one particular consequence, inside Canada, and on some types of photographs, of the calculation of the proper number of years, in application of the copyright rules and of their amendments. The rule was that the copyright in Canada of any photograph expired at the end of the 50th year after its creation. For example, any photograph created in 1923 is in the public domain in Canada since the beginning of 1974, any photograph created in 1948 is in the public domain in Canada since the beginning of 1999, etc. An important amendement to the Copyright Act was adopted in 1997 and came into force in 1999. From then, the rule for photographs of identified individual authorship (but not for photos of corporate authorship, which were the object of a later amendment, in 2013) became that their copyright expired at the end of the 50th year after the death of the author. That amendment was not retroactive, so the photographs for which the 50 years since creation had already passed remained in the public domain. Practically, counting backwards 50 years from the 1999 coming into force of that amendment, you can conclude that photographs created before 1949 had already passed the 50-years-from-creation time and thus they remained in the public domain. However, when considering the copyright of those photographs in the United States, you must remember that there is nothing special about the year 1949 as such. It is only the result to which one arrives when applying the proper calculation, creation year+50, to determine the last creation year to which the old copyright rule applies in Canada, counting backwards from 1999. In the United States, because of the URAA-related provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act, you must determine if the copyright on a published work had already expired in its country of origin before the URAA reference date. For determining the copyright status in the United states of Canadian works (published between 1923 and March 1989), the URAA reference year from which you must count 50 years backwards is 1996. That is to say, for photographs published in Canada before March 1989 and not published simultaneously (within six months) in the United States, you can conclude that any photograph created before 1946 is in the public domain in the United States. Note that photographs created in 1946, in 1947 and in 1948 are in the public domain in Canada but they are under copyright in the United States. Thus, the "rule of thumb", when considering the U.S. copyright of Canadian photographs, is "created before 1946". However, remember also that unpublished works and works published anywhere after February 1989 are directly under U.S. copyright. -- Asclepias (talk) 16:23, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Actually, any photo that is known to date before 1949 in Canada is PD in Canada, publication or not, and would automatically then be PD in the US. --MASEM (t) 03:33, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- If the photograph was created in 1936, it is in the public domain in Canada since 1987. But to be used freely on en.wikipedia, it would have to be in the public domain in the United States and, for that, it would have had to be published. The problem in this case is that the Glenbow website seems to say that the photographs in their collection were unpublished [2]. The notion of publication is not obvious, but unless someone can find evidence, or can make a convincing case, that this photograph was published before 1989, it can probably not be considered as a free image on en.wikipedia. -- Asclepias (talk) 03:20, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
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No copyright tag, how to fix?
I am warned about an image that I just uploaded with a nasty message saying the image "does not have a copyright tag". How do I put on a copyright tag? Roger Hui (talk) 20:12, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
"Hi Hi Hi" / "C Moon" by Wings
I want to upload labels of the vinyl release. Is the text copyrightable in the UK? --George Ho (talk) 07:54, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
File
Hi I just received the following notice concerning a file I uploaded File:David Martin Wilson Clerk of the NZ House of Representatives 2015.jpg "I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:
1.Go to the file description page and add the text
below the original replaceable fair use template, replacing <your reason> with a short explanation of why the file is not replaceable.
2.On the file discussion page, write a full explanation of why you believe the file is not replaceable.
Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media item by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by creating new media yourself (for example, by taking your own photograph of the subject)."
I uploaded the file as a Fair Use non-free work and, as stated in the information provided on upload, this file was given to me by the owner for the purpose of uploading to Wikipedia. Should I re-upload the file and select "this is a free work"?NZHistoryResearch (talk) 02:37, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
I don't understand how can be this file connected with our page? I know nothing about this file, and it is not anyhow connected with our party's page. So probably you mistakenly wrote me about this. This file is not present on our page. So, just delete it, if you need.
wikipedia file upload wizard is horrible!
this page is so difficult to upload photos - it took me twnety minutes jsut to upload one photo! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moscowamerican (talk • contribs) 20:00, 15 April 2016
On flickr you can just upload the pictures, and choose one license . here you have to go through all of these steps. Moscowamerican (talk) 17:46, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Moscowamerican: Or, as the Upload Wizard suggests, use the plain form for local uploads to complete an upload in just one step (including choosing the appropriate license/s). – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 01:35, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
That is not readily apparent. It is very difficult to use this. ( — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moscowamerican (talk • contribs) 07:42, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
- Using the unguided plain form was unfortunately not a good piece of advice. The upload wizard is designed the way it is in order to guide newcomers not only to understand what information to provide for their uploads, but also to realize when any attempt at uploading an image is going to be futile because an image simply doesn't fit the requirements of our policies. The plain form, when used by newcomers, almost invariably leads to invalid uploads, because users aren't given this necessary information. Unsurprisingly, the image you uploaded lacked copyright and fair-use information. It's been tagged for deletion. I'm afraid to say it won't be much use trying to salvage it by adding better tags, because it very much looks like it's always going to fall short of the non-free content rules. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:03, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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- If you are trying to upload Flickr images, it is possibly even better to the the Flickr2commons tool found at http://tools.wmflabs.org/flickr2commons/index.html. It even checks to make sure the licence is acceptable and uploads the highest resolution; you don't even need to download the image to your computer first, so saving several steps and it even does batch uploads from albums. BTW, this editor asked me to help upload an image for him but it is copyright so I explained (see my talk page). ww2censor (talk) 13:24, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
==License tagging for File:Lets get married from youtube 2008 show.png==
Thanks for uploading File:Lets get married from youtube 2008 show.png. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.
To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 11:05, 17 April 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moscowamerican (talk • contribs)
License tagging for File:Gaylord Sangston Truesdell, the artist in his studio. Courtesy of the Frick Collection - Frick Art Reference Library Archives.jpg
I have uploaded this picture of the subject artist, and having trouble finding the correct tag for the image. I have written permission from the Frick to use the photo, but can't identify the proper tag. Symphony4142 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Symphony4142 (talk • contribs) 19:26, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- Well you uploaded that image about 6 months ago and it was deleted because no copyright tag had been provided even though a notice was posted on your talk page. Usually such images are deleted after about 7 days. Can you provide an online url to the page the image appears on online and we can review it for you? Did you get permission from the Frick and if so exactly what sort of permission did they give? Perhaps the image is old enough to be out of copyright. The image can be restored but we need more details to help you. On the other hand, if you can provide the deleting editor User:Explicit with details as asked above they may be able to restore the image for you. ww2censor (talk) 23:16, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Blurred Lines
I am the primary editor of Emily Ratajkowski. Her article has a great deal of text related to controversies surrounding the song "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke. The "Blurred Lines" article and the Thicke articles also have a lot of related text. I am wondering several things about possibly sampling the video for use in these articles:
- Is it something that would be allowable considering WP:NFCC?
- I have sampled the music from songs and have been governed by the lesser of 10% of the duration of the song and 30 seconds. Do videos have the same limitations for sampling?
- Does the sample have to be a continuous segment or could I take 10 seconds from one section 10 from another and 7 from another?
- Do I have to use the SFW version, which does not really present all of the controversies? Can I use the NSFW version or the side-by-side comparison?
I don't really think the SFW version would really explain much in the Ratajkowski video because her nudity is largely what the encyclopedic controversies are about.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:41, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- On the easy questions: Yes, video is similarly constrained to 30 s/10% of the work whichever is less. It doesn't have to be continuous, so that the total amount should still be under the 30s/10%. WP is not censored and if it the nudity in the video that is a controversy, then that's likely the version to include.
- But as to the NFCC question, I'm not sure if you can justify the use of the video at Ratajkowski's article. That the video was controversial and she was in it are relevant, but that I assume is discussed in depth on the Blurred Lines article, and the reader of Ratajkowski's article does not gain anything by seeing the video on her page. The issues was not how she looked, simply that there was a choice to use nude models in general in that video which raised ires. --MASEM (t) 19:52, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- I know you are very cognizant of at least two paragraphs in the Ratajkowski article, but have you considered the current extensive content related to the song/video's controversies in the Ratajkowski article? Also, I am becoming aware that I often discuss "the song" in Ratajkowski's article when I mean to say "the video of the song" or simply "the video". I may need to change this content. I have to think about the content and the video and see exactly what 27 seconds I would want to present for NFCC consideration. You say the with-nudity version is O.K. Does it make sense to show the side by side version or should I simply consider the with-nudity version.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:26, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- I see that a WP:GOCE session is actually making great changes to the article.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:32, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- When I look at the Blurred Lines page and the controversy over the video , which seems to be more on the issues of the song's lyrics and the use of nudity on the video that seems to objectify women per the complaints, I have to ask if one needs video to show this. I think a still of the video seems reasonable to include on the video's page (which can come from the uncensored version), but a video segment really isn't necessary, as with a still, everything else can be explained in prose. And to that point, there's almost no need for the image to be used on Ratajkowski, since the controversy on the video is not about her specifically, but the choice to use nude models. --MASEM (t) 20:41, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- I am not sure how complete the "Blurred Lines" page is, but there are several related controversies. We certainly don't need media to help the reader understand that there were naked dancing women. Nudity in the video was an issue. Rapey lyrics were an issue. Demeaning lyrics in the song and demeaning/degrading choreography in the video were also issues. I think that the video might help explain the demeaning element, but I have to make sure that the prose exists to present such media. I'll review the current content and the sources in this regard.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:26, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
- When I look at the Blurred Lines page and the controversy over the video , which seems to be more on the issues of the song's lyrics and the use of nudity on the video that seems to objectify women per the complaints, I have to ask if one needs video to show this. I think a still of the video seems reasonable to include on the video's page (which can come from the uncensored version), but a video segment really isn't necessary, as with a still, everything else can be explained in prose. And to that point, there's almost no need for the image to be used on Ratajkowski, since the controversy on the video is not about her specifically, but the choice to use nude models. --MASEM (t) 20:41, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- I see that a WP:GOCE session is actually making great changes to the article.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:32, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- I know you are very cognizant of at least two paragraphs in the Ratajkowski article, but have you considered the current extensive content related to the song/video's controversies in the Ratajkowski article? Also, I am becoming aware that I often discuss "the song" in Ratajkowski's article when I mean to say "the video of the song" or simply "the video". I may need to change this content. I have to think about the content and the video and see exactly what 27 seconds I would want to present for NFCC consideration. You say the with-nudity version is O.K. Does it make sense to show the side by side version or should I simply consider the with-nudity version.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:26, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- Masem--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:13, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
- On the Blurred Lines video , if there is sourced discussion that the specific dancing being done was demeaning/degrading, a video clip might be appropriate, but that really depends on if the dancing aspect is discussed in any detail. If people just said "oh, I think it's demeaning" but no specific reasoning why, you can't really support a video clip for that. If instead it was people saying a specific move was a problem, and then there was defense or rebuttal, so that that reader seeing the specific move can judge for themselves then yes. But that's all for the video. I see no way that that can justify the same on Ratajkowski's page, even (I don't know if this was the case) if she was the dancer that is at the center of the controversy. It's still about the video, not herself as a BLP, so non-free in that manner would not be appropriate. --MASEM (t) 03:35, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Fair use
Greetings! — I recently uploaded File:Howard Henry Peckham.jpg image under a 'fair use' license for use in the Howard Henry Peckham article. I believe it satisfies 'Fair use' requirements. If the file is 'good to go' would an administrator or patroller add the ' |image has rationale=yes ' parameter to the license template? Thanx. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:59, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Vanessa Ferlito images
Could some other people take a look at Vanessa Ferlito and today's edits/uploads by Cquarto (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)? Several times in the last year, users have uploaded copyrighted images of Ferlito saying that they have permission or the photographer released the image for use. However, no one has ever shown that USA Network (who presumably owns the image in a "work for hire" situation) releases it. A free image does exist, but apparently the subject does not like it based on previous edit summaries at the article. Cquarto has uploaded the image 3 times under different file names in the last few hours. I would love it if someone else can help me sort through this. only (talk) 00:39, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
- I agree with you that the old image is not as good as the new, obviously professional, image. It is unlikely USA Network will freely licence that image but we can hope. Anyway, if no OTRS verification arrives it will then be deleted, so maybe just watchlist the image and the article, and then restore the old one. There is no use getting into an edit war if it will be resolved by the lack of a licence. The uploader has a history of uploading copyright images and there may be some justification is requesting he be blocked for a time for those actions. It might be a wake-up call but who knows. ww2censor (talk) 10:53, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
File:Doordash logo.png - copyrightable in the US?
Is the Doordash logo copyrightable in the US?
If the logo is copyrightable, there is a previous revision on the image's description page that should probably be hidden. If the logo is below the threshold of originality, then it would seem that the previous higher-resolution revision of the logo could be used and the image license changed to something like {{PD-logo}} + {{Trademark}}. Thanks. --Elegie (talk) 08:33, 17 April 2016 (UTC)