Talk:U.S. license plate designs and serial formats
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[edit] Proposal for renaming article
Wouldn't U.S. license plate designs and serial formats be more precise than U.S. license plate numbering and lettering? Qqqqqq (talk) 20:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- If there are no objections, I'd like to go ahead and rename this article. Qqqqqq (talk) 20:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
- No objection here. --Plate King (talk) 23:51, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image licensing
It has been pointed out on Commons that nearly all license plates contain designs that are owned by their respective creators (i.e. the individual US states). As a result, the photographs appearing here cannot legitimately be released as PD, GFDL, or other free licenses, and must be used under fair use. Consequently, these license plate images now appearing on Commons will be removed. If you would like to continue using them on Wikipedia, please upload them locally and provide an appropriate fair use rationale. Dragons flight (talk) 02:34, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- The license plate design is not copyrighted, and by its very nature is public domain. The photo that someone takes of a license plate, that would be copyright to that person. --Plate King (talk) 23:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
- This is simply wrong, the individual states automatically own a copyright on the designs they created. Dragons flight (talk) 00:03, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- As an observation: many license plate designs were created by individuals, not by government, and isn't intellectual property greated by a government agent fair-use, or is that only the federal government? Qqqqqq (talk) 01:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- Works of the federal government are in the public domain. Works of individual US states and works created for them on commission (i.e. works for hire) are the property of the individual states. These designs can still be used here, but their use must be consistent with the policy on the use of non-free content. Dragons flight (talk) 02:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
- Well then, if you feel that way, you should take action and loccally upload them with the fair use provision. As an aside, I suspect that many of the images have been just taken off of websites and uploaded. --Plate King (talk) 23:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
- Works of the federal government are in the public domain. Works of individual US states and works created for them on commission (i.e. works for hire) are the property of the individual states. These designs can still be used here, but their use must be consistent with the policy on the use of non-free content. Dragons flight (talk) 02:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
- As an observation: many license plate designs were created by individuals, not by government, and isn't intellectual property greated by a government agent fair-use, or is that only the federal government? Qqqqqq (talk) 01:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- This is simply wrong, the individual states automatically own a copyright on the designs they created. Dragons flight (talk) 00:03, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
