Commons talk:Licensing

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Archived discussions

Seven 2006/2007 discussions organized as subpages, ignoringincl. comments added in 2014:

• ADRM
• Review of license templates
• U.S. patents
• Ecoport copyleft
• Museums Bilder (in German)
• Explaining why Derivative Work and Commercial Use must be allowed
• Which countries' copyright laws determine copyright status?

Help with Flickr images

Hi - I was wondering if someone could help me with Flickr licensing items. I thought I was following the rules with File:Doug McDermott Creighton.jpg and File:Oladipo Zeller.jpg (plus two crops of this pic). In each case it looked like the photo was fair use (in the case of McDermott without modifications and the other seemed to allow modifications), but it looks like a bot has scheduled them to be deleted. I am not interested in uploading photos that aren't fair use but would love some help on what to look for - obviously I misunderstood something. Can anyone help me understand what the issues were and how to avoid them in the future? Thanks in advance. Rikster2 (talk) 15:20, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

@Rikster2: According to the bot, they’re not fair use but use a more permissive CC BY-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs) license. However, not even that is allowed, see § Well-known licenses. (Fair use isn’t allowed either, by the way.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:48, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. The link is very helpful. Rikster2 (talk) 16:06, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Can we link Commons:Village pump/Copyright here?

I think that Commons:Village pump/Copyright would be worth linking in see also section Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 20:59, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Why is "Forbidden licenses" a subsection of "Acceptable licenses"?

I would expect subsections of "Acceptable licenses" to describe different types of acceptable licenses, or perhaps some cases where a forbidden license appears at first to be acceptable. But "Forbidden licenses" doesn't seem to fall into these categories: it is a full discussion of forbidden licenses, and should be its own major section. Brianjd (talk) 10:11, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

•  Agree - I believe that you're right. SV1XV (talk) 10:16, 7 November 2021 (UTC)