-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SlimVirgin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:59, Cary Bass <c...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be >> accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects the country of >> origin rule rather than the PD-US rule that more often applies on >> the English Wikipedia. > > Hi Cary, most of the image people I've checked with say that images > on the Commons are supposed to be PD in their country of origin > *and* in the U.S. Although there are images on the Commons that are > PD in their country of origin but *not* in the U.S., they usually > carry a tag that places the PD status in doubt and may be proposed > for deletion. This means we can't use them on WP. > > Look at this image for example. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Refugees_from_Lydda.jpg > > Palestinian refugees in the British Mandate of Palestine during the > exodus from their homes after Israeli troops moved in, July 1948, > photographer unknown, believed to be from, or working on behalf of, > the British War Office. First publication date not known, but I do > know it had been published by 1957. It's PD in Israel, which now > governs part of that land. It's PD in Jordan, which governs the > other part. 99.9 percent certain it's PD in the UK, which governed > the land at the time. But not clearly PD in the U.S. It has > therefore been proposed for deletion from the Commons. > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Refugees_from_Lydda.jpg > Yes, of course I didn't make an exception to my comment, regarding whether or not an image was first published in the United States. :-) Foolish me for not pointing out the exceptions; however... this image was published in 1957 without a copyright notice, making it public domain in the US. I've noted that in the deletion discussion on Commons.
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