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):
Or in some cases they are not tagged with a PD notice applicable to their
country of publication:
Also, some have a license (implying a copyright claim) imported from
Flickr. Switching to PD would be more accurate
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 <gaurav(a)ggvaidya.com> wrote:
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
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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