Hi Toby,
On 4 September 2012 22:06, Toby Hudson <tobyyy(a)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