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Archived discussions

Seven 2006/2007 discussions organized as subpages, ignoringincl. comments added in 2014:

• ADRM
• Review of license templates
• U.S. patents
• Ecoport copyleft
• Museums Bilder (in German)
• Explaining why Derivative Work and Commercial Use must be allowed
• Which countries' copyright laws determine copyright status?

Update external links

I have updated some of the external links, but some are still out of date. Please look for links to replace them or consider removing those links.--RToriCel (talk) 11:27, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

really own work?

I have doubts about the source/license of File:Matthias Euler-Rolle.jpg. what can i do? --94.216.250.89 13:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi, You can nominate the file for deletion with your detailed arguments. Thanks, Yann (talk) 13:10, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

You could search for the image (and File:Sabine Johanna Wiedenhofer.png, their other upload) on the net. If the images have been previously published elsewhere, they need a VRT permission/confirmation. –LPfi (talk) 13:25, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Photos from family archive

What to do, if I upload photos, that are not my work, but I have all rights for that photos? For example my father photographed some educationally valuable pictures, he died years ago, and I am his heritor and want to upload these pictures. How to state this situation in file description?

(I am not asking for myself, I am asking for User:PavelKaras13, who is participant of Seniors write Wikipedia course on czech wikipedia that I lecture, and who has problems with these three photos tagged for deletion. He is not author (his father was), but he has full rights for that photos because his father died >0 <70 years ago and he is heritor.) Grtek lektor (talk) 17:36, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

@Grtek lektor: Hi,

PavelKaras13 should send a permission for a free license following the procedure at COM:VRT, mentioning that all relevant details to the copyright status of these files. The information sent will only be available to the volunteers dealing with these requests. This can be done in several languages. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:36, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

The images were uploaded without a licensing tag, you could use {{PD-heirs}} and, of course, contact VRT as advised. SV1XV (talk) 17:30, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

1944 photographs from the RAF archive

Hello, a question for some copyright expert from the United Kingdom: this photograph was taken on 11 September 1944 at the Parc de Princes in Paris, France, by a Royal Air Force's photographer prior to a rugby union match between RAF RU team and Paris Universitaire FC. Can there safely apply {{PD-UKGov}}? Thanks -- Blackcat 10:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC)