Commons talk:Licensing

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?

In the section about public domain material, the link to the online search at the Copyright Office is broken. This an up-to-date link, and this one to the currently proof-of-concept Virtual Card Catalog should probably be added since it allows searching for pre-1978 copyright information. -- Veikk0.ma (talk) 05:37, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

--Gazebo (talk) 06:18, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In the section "Material in the public domain", there is the following sentence:

In the U.S. this date is January 1, 1923.

This should probably be changed to use {{Not-PD-US-expired-min-year}} for the year instead of 1923. --Gazebo (talk) 06:22, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Gazebo: Thanks for the note, I changed it. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:03, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking for a piece of audio of a national anthem. I found one with a CC-BY-SA license, it's in a video on Youtube. Am I allowed to use it on Commons and if so, how can I best go about doing this? --oSeveno (User talk) 10:08, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, wrong place to ask, moved it. --oSeveno (User talk) 10:10, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone clue me in on Category:Photographs by Willem van de Poll? The photographer died in 1970 so why would any of his photographs be in the public domain or otherwise under free licenses? Haukurth (talk) 15:14, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like they were provided to Commons via a partnership program with the Dutch Nationaal Archief, so presumably the photographer donates his photographs (and the copyright) to the archives, who in turn licensed them CC0. From here, it sounds like his niece and heir (who had earlier donated the physical photographs) transferred all rights to the National Archives in 1998. So, the license is whatever the Nationaal Archief says it is. Carl Lindberg (talk) 16:17, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! I now notice "Auteursrechthebbende Nationaal Archief, CC0" here for example: [1] which is good. Haukurth (talk) 17:32, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]