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Newspaper cover from few decades ago

Can add magazine cover to article? In the jungle of regulations and discussions, cannot find how to classify (or find) status of rights to old cover of newspaper presented by editorial office in the archive. It's even hard to find precedent – there is no example on newspaper's wiki page, which is sure indication that can't... (What if I take photo of cover myself?) plz hlp

(> The Sun, 1980) Konky7777 (talk) 09:12, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Konky7777: Multiple newspapers are called "Sun". Copyrights on newspaper covers as part of the newspapers generally ran more than a couple of decades, but may not have been renewed. That is less common now in countries that are members of the Berne Convention. You can ask on the particular newspaper's Wikipedia article's talk page, and you can see the default copyright status for the country where the newspaper is published under COM:CRT; for example, Poland has standard copyright 70pma and joined 28 January 1920 per COM:Poland.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:35, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

It is extremely unlikely that any 1980 newspaper is out of copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 15:54, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

TNX

One sentence saved all my volumes :-) Konky7777 (talk) 12:02, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

TNX!

From what I see, one illustration will last lifetime! I will never try to add photo again even though I am photographer.

(I'm not surprised that billions of people steal trillions of photos – the law is horror and tragedy that serves to make money for crooks, but it is impossible to understand because it requires comments and precedents, etc... and geo... .

— One dreams of machine with an exist engine for searching for similar photos with add, by the way, specific ©, and database in which publishers should apply to participate.

A model for imitation and legal sharing for scientific and adv purposes. Konky7777 (talk) 12:01, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Logo file

• file:Rishiri.jpg

Is this logo Public Domain or vice versa? The file looks somewhat abstract, but I'm confused. --린눈라단 (talk) 23:43, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

@린눈라단: Please discuss this in Commons:Deletion requests/File:Rishiri.jpg, not here. Thanks, Yann (talk) 06:26, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Apologies for my mistake. Thank you for your response. --린눈라단 (talk) 08:35, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Requesting Double-Check

Hello, I have very recently uploaded a file that is public domain in its source country due to expired copyright, as it's older than the renewal year (1943+) for pre-1993 copyright law. However, I'm unclear if this would still be considered public domain in the United States in spite of its expired copyright, and I'd like someone to double-check me as I don't want to get a copyright strike.

Addendum: The metadata of the image also reads as photography of an existing 2D work of art, implying this is a direct photograph of the image, presumably framed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madamepestilence (talk • contribs) 00:33, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Madamepestilence (talk) 00:23, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

@Madamepestilence: I don't think it is PD in Russia. According to https://tramvaiiskusstv.ru/plakat/spisok-khudozhnikov/item/30-ganf-yang-iosif-abramovich-1899-1973.html, Ganf lived until 1973. I'll be nominating it for deletion on that basis (presumably to be restored in a couple of decades).

Also: discussions like this really belong at Commons:Village pump/Copyright, not here. No outcome of this discussion is going to change Commons:Licensing. - Jmabel ! talk 05:06, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

False information about PD image of Jan Jeleński

Image File:Jeleński1.jpg seems to be attributed improperly. I find it extremely unlikely that anyone has lived so long as to make the photograph of a person that died in 1909 and upload the photo to Commons. Yet, since it's been made before 1909, it's probably PD. What do you think? Darellur (talk) 20:44, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Image is now deleted; as an anonymous EU work, can certainly be restored in 2030 (1909+120+1). Personally, I think that is a bit overcautious: he looks to be in his 40s or maybe early 50s in the picture, which probably means it has already passed into the public domain. - Jmabel ! talk 16:43, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Revoking a license

Is it possible to revoke a GNU Free Documentation License / Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license? I released an image of people of whom I did not request permission and it has been widely used on Wikipedia and externally (without attribution) and I want to delete it. Chesdovi (talk) 12:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

@Chesdovi: Hi,

No. Free licenses are, by definition, not revocable. Yann (talk) 13:46, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

If the people never consented to publishing the photo and it was not taken at a public event they can request the deletion for privacy violation reasons. This is totally independent of licensing questions. GPSLeo (talk) 14:18, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

@Chesdovi: Seconding GPSLeo here. And if it's hard for them to make the request themselves and they are not significant public figures, this might be granted as a request on your part for a courtesy deletion on that basis. - Jmabel ! talk 16:45, 11 August 2024 (UTC)