Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2007 February 11

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Articles

  • Oda al Gato (history · last edit) The author died in 1973, the whole poem is reproduced in the article. GB 05:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC) - reproduction has been removed and replaced by English interpretation so no more problem.
  • Ruth Bidgood (history · last edit) from [The New Companion to the Literature of Wales (Cardiff, 1998) compiled and edited by Meic Stephens]. (See initial version of this article: needs a complete rewrite -- has been edited since, and marked "adapted from", but is still a derivative work) The Anome 10:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Don Calfa (history · last edit) from [6]. Nomination completed by DumbBOT 13:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Heartbeat (Danielle Steel novel) (history · last edit) from [7]. Addere 16:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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Images

  • Image:Smumncally.jpg (history · last edit) from [10]. Claims PD but is CrownCopyright (Canada). Cavenba 06:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Seems like every image on Al-Ahly has questionable copyright status:
  • Image:Peter_Cherrie_Squad.JPG (history · last edit) from [14]. MECU≈talk 13:45, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Image:Peter_Cherrie_Squad.JPG (history · last edit) from [15]. MECU≈talk 13:45, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Image:CannonMountain-TramwayWinter.jpg (history · last edit) from says "All rights reserved". Fred-Chess 14:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Image:FSDClock_Tower.jpg (history · last edit) from [16]. Shyam (T/C) 20:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Image:NB87ASS-226.jpg (history · last edit) from Government of New Brunswick, thus under a form of Crown Copyright. Cavenba 20:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
    • I believe this image is in the public domain, but in any case it's properly tagged as fairuse. What's the problem? Nardman1 21:19, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
      • Wikipedia takes copyrights seriously. Non-commercial use images are not allowed. The gov't has refused to license their work under GNU and/or into Public Domain. See: Crown Copyright. Cavenba 21:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
        • Stop leaving nonsense on my Talk page and deleting the fair use rationale from this image. Under U.S. fair use law this image is allowed. Click the link and read it. Nardman1 22:27, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Image:Pents13.jpg (history · last edit) is claimed to be first published 1909, but contains the text "(c) 1971 US Games" in the lower right corner. See User_talk:Smiloid#Speedy_deletions. All the images in the article Minor Arcana seem to have this problem. I have not tagged the images.-gadfium 22:25, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
    • The US Games copyright is invalid. See Rider-Waite-Smith_deck. Nardman1 22:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
      • Should we add a note to each image page to explain that? As I dig, I find evidence that this issue has been raised before. See for example User_talk:Fuzzypeg#Tarot_Cards. Should we use images which contain their copyright claim? I see the images on the Rider-Waite-Smith_deck page do not contain this claim.-gadfium 22:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
        • How many such images are there? It might be useful to create a template if there are many. Nardman1 23:22, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
      • There are 56 cards. I've sampled half a dozen of them, and all contain the copyright claim.-gadfium 00:04, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
        • I'll create a template. Nardman1 00:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
        • Admins, please review this FAQ before you start removing the tarot games.--P Todd 02:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

To be sure, the 1909 Rider Tarot would be PD in the States. However is the deck bearing the 1971 copyright notices the same as the 1909 version? It is my understanding that the plates used to create the original 1909 version were destroyed during the Second World War and what US Games has been selling since 1971 is a reconstruction which would be copyrighted.Smiloid 07:37, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Smiloid has been replacing the non copyright 1909 images that were previously on the tarot article pages with copyrighted ones and then trying to get these images deleted. Can someone please review this situation? Morgan Leigh | Talk 07:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)