Image talk:Nobel in Literature.jpg
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The statement that "The copyright holder of this file, the Nobel Foundation, allows anyone to use it for any purpose" is false and contradicted by statements to the contrary in its official copyright notices concerning these trademarked and copyrighted images. The copyright notices are posted prominently on its site. See talk page of Nobel Prize.--NYScholar 09:36, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
See the discussions in the talk pages for Nobel Prize and for the Nobel Prize image linked in that article. The Nobel Foundation copyright notice is prominently linked in the webpages for every medal, including this one. Go to Nobel Prize (Nobel Foundation) official website and click on "copyright" notice at the foot of the page(s).
Permission in writing is required for:
Photos or Images of the Nobel Prize Medal
Permission to use an image or a photo of a Nobel Prize medal is only granted if the image is going to be used as an illustration to an editorial text about Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prize or a Nobel Laureate.
An image of the Nobel Prize medal may, however, not be used on the cover of books, booklets or other printed matter, on posters, in exhibitions etc., nor for publicity or commercial purposes.
To apply for a permit, e-mail info@nobel.se. If permission is granted, ”®© The Nobel Foundation ” must be indicated. (italics and bold added)
Any permission "granted" is not in advance but rather after a written requests and it is not automatic but conditional, according to the copyright notice on the official website of the Nobel Foundation. Note that the image of the Nobel medal and each ("a") Nobel medal (including one in each of the fields) is both copyrighted and trademarked. --NYScholar 21:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
N.B.: A statement posted that User:Nkcs posts in "file history" on the image page for this image (Nobel in Literature.jpg)is false and misleading: "The copyright holder of this file, the Nobel Foundation, allows anyone to use it for any purpose" (italics added). The Noble Foundation copyright notice (linked in that image's "Summary") explicitly restricts use of images and designs of the Nobel Medal (any Nobel Medal, the medals in all fields). See the copyright policy. The quoted statement claiming that the Nobel Foundation permits its use for "any purpose" is completely false and misleading. See the talk page of Nobel Prize and talk pages of other Nobel Medal images posted in Wikipedia and in Wikipedia Commons (where they have been deleted) for further discussion about this and related matters. Restrictions are stated in the Nobel Foundation Copyright Notice ; Here is direct link to it: Copyright Notice, with additional link to PDF with "detailed information about Terms and Conditions of Use". --NYScholar 19:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Although the old summary was reverted, the information in it is still misleading and in some cases false (as stated above). See previous links given and this link to the Nobel Foundation's own webpage for the Nobel Prize in Literature Medal.
Note the Nobel Foundation's own caption: "Registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation"; both the registered and the copyright (®©) symbols are required in captions for images/photographs of such Nobel Medals taken from its website (and they are not supposed to be altered); I had already added the symbols, but they were deleted through the reversion back to less accurate single reference only to "Copyright © The Nobel Foundation," which is really only for text and images/photographs that are its properties, not the designs and trademarks (which are registered as well as copyrighted). The notice "Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2006" at the bottom of the Nobel Foundation webpage is primarily for its full text on that page (including its image/photograph), not for the registered trademark. Both its caption/notice "Registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation" and the website's images/photographs of it thus are to be indicated by others as "®© The Nobel Foundation" (as it explicitly requires when granting permission to use them). Wikipedia's image page for this Nobel Prize in Literature Medal is, therefore, still inaccurate and misleading. The Nobel Foundation does not allow "anyone to use [the Nobel Prize in Literature Medal or any of its Nobel Medals] for any purpose", as stated in this image page's "File History"; to the contrary, the Nobel Foundation (copyright notice) pointedly and specifically restricts their uses by others (to illustrating articles about the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel, and individual Nobel Laureates) and requires "permission in writing" for any such acceptable uses.
The Fair Use tag on the image page points out the most likely potential problems re: both copyright and trademark. These problems are in direct conflict with the statement re: "any use" being permitted in the File History on the image page. The reversion does not make that statement any more accurate; it just misleadingly indicates that the File History statement is accurate when it is not. For more information, go to Nobel Prizes: Medals on its site, where each image/photograph of each medal is captioned with the same statement "Registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation." There is no excuse or rationale for omitting the symbols or this fact on the image page itself. (It is appropriate that the caption re: the design being registered and copyrighted (®© the Nobel Foundation) shows up when one moves a mouse cursor over the image as it has been added to some articles, however.) ---NYScholar 09:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
