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This image was submitted by a student of mine, and I am nearly certain that they obtained the image from http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/fly/aimain/1aahome.htm (this is a source they cited). I unfortunatley do not know if they obtained proper permissions for posting it here, but I suspect they did not. Mperkins 01:44, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for following this up. We really need to have the copyright status clarified, otherwise we have to assume that proper copyright permissions have not been made, and we will have to delete it. Wikipedia can't risk being open to a copyright infringement suit. Could you tell the student to review our copyright image guidelines and if the image requires permission we have a boilerplate request letter you can send to author? Thanks. --Lexor 02:47, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Unfortunately the term is over and I have no method of contacting the student. However, based on what I can see they did not get the proper permissions. Until this is investigated further the image should probaby be pulled.
The image almost certainly comes from a book published in 1919 that is now freely available online through ESP - http://www.esp.org. The book's reference is: The Physical Basis of Heredity. Morgan, Thomas H. 1919. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. To see the full text (and images) of the book see: http://www.esp.org/books/morgan/physical-basis/facsimile/. The image is on page 28 (chapter 2).
I know very little about copyrights, but based on the age of the book, has the image falled into the public domain? --Mperkins 04:47, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
IANAL, but if it was 1919, it's before 1923 and therefore in the public domain:
  • The work was created and first published before January 1, 1923, or at least 95 years before January 1 of the current year, whichever is later.
so, that image should have fallen into the public domain by now. I think we could probably leave it for the moment, but if you could ask your student to follow it up on this Talk page here, when you next have a chance to communicate, that would be great. --Lexor 10:52, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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