On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Gaurav Vaidya <gaurav@ggvaidya.com> wrote:

Hi Toby,

On 4 September 2012 22:06, Toby Hudson <tobyyy@gmail.com> 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

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