Hi Gaurav, Glad to be of help. I don't have time to go through all your uploads, but here are some notes on a few random samples:
The general point I made in my other email still applies to some of your files Here are some not currently tagged with a US PD notice (e.g. PD-1923 or PD-old-100): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlides_halesus_CramerStoll.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scotopelia_peliIbisV001P015AA.jpg Or in some cases they are not tagged with a PD notice applicable to their country of publication: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bassin_Houiller_Du_Gard.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Gattung_Nepenthes_illustration2.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simonkai.jpg Also, some have a license (implying a copyright claim) imported from Flickr. Switching to PD would be more accurate http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aesclepius,_Flora,_Ceres_and_Cupid_honouring_the_Bust_of_Linnaeus.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_BioDivLibrary_-_n102_w1150.jpg Best regards, and thanks for the hard work you're doing. Toby / User:99of9 On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Gaurav Vaidya <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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