Hi Toby, On 4 September 2012 22:06, Toby Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do we have adequate copyright information, for instance? > > I've only looked at one file: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenwaxbill.jpg > > And it looks like you could improve the copyright info: > > Here the copyright claim is that the author died more than 70 years ago, but > there is no illustrator death date listed. So to verify the claim, we would > need to do some research. So if you have the date of death, and if the book > was published outside the US (here it was apparently London, UK), please > provide it. > > Also, note that the current copyright template says (after a big warning > sign): "You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate > why this work is in the public domain in the United States." In this case > you should use http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-1923. > > Toby / User:99of9
Ugh, good catch. It looks like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenwaxbill.jpg might not actually be out of copyright -- it was first published in the UK (not the US as I thought) in 1899, so it remains in copyright for "70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work dies" (as per http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law). F. W. Frohawk, the illustrator, died in 1946 as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Frohawk, so none of his works will enter the public domain until 1946+70+1 = 2017. I've tagged it for deletion, thanks! We'd still love your feedback on the other images! cheers, Gaurav _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
