Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files
This page is intended for listing and discussing images that are used under a non-free license or are missing important copyright or licensing information.
If you see an image that you believe to be used only under a non-free license or is lacking the proper copyright information, follow the instructions in the new listings section below.
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Images are listed here for a total of 30 days before they are deleted. They are kept in articles for the first 15 days, after which they are replaced with boilerplate text until the issue is resolved or the image is replaced or deleted.
Listings which were made due to missing information can be removed immediately if the missing information is added and the images are public domain or licensed under an indisputably free license (GFDL, CC-BY-SA, etc.—see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for more on these).
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The purpose of this file is currently being discussed in accordance with Wikipedia's image use policy. The outcome of the discussion may result in the file's usage or license being changed, or possibly its deletion.
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The purpose of this file is currently being discussed in accordance with Wikipedia's image use policy. The outcome of the discussion may result in the file's usage or license being changed, or possibly its deletion.
Please share your thoughts on the matter at this file's entry on the Files for discussion page. Feel free to edit the file description page, but the page must not be blanked and this notice must not be removed until the discussion is closed. How to list a file for discussion: 1. Add {{ffd|log=2024 November 5}} to the file description page.2. Add {{subst:Ffd2|1=Possibly unfree files|uploader= |reason= }} ~~~~ to add a line to today's FfD.3. Add {{ffdc|1=Possibly unfree files|log=2024 November 5}} in the caption on each page in the file links.4. Please consider notifying the uploader by placing {{subst:ffd notice|1=Possibly unfree files}} on their talk page(s). |
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- {{nonfreedelete}} (if the image is only available under a non-free license) to the description page
- Contact the user who uploaded the image and ask them to supply more information (even if the image says it's being used under a non-free license, maybe it is available under a free license as well). If there are a large number of problem images by the same uploader, consider waiting for a response before listing any of them.
- Create a new listing in today's section.
After 15 days
- If and only if, after 15 days, the situation has not been resolved, replace all instances of the image with
{{nonfreeimage|OLDIMAGE.XXX|OLDCAPTION|ALIGNMENT|WIDTH}}
or{{unverifiedimage|OLDIMAGE.XXX|OLDCAPTION|ALIGNMENT|WIDTH}}
Simply use the filename of the image without theImage:
formatting. For the alignment, use "right
", "left
", "center
" or "none
". For the width, use a valid table width value such as "200px
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". Do not label this a minor edit; this is to alert people with these articles on their watchlists about the change. - Move the sections that are older than 15 days to the #Older than 15 days section.
Listings
Older than 30 days
Yet more DW
- Image:Ramparts - Angers.jpg French gov
- Image:Fontainebleau.jpg French gov
- Image:Place du Tertre.jpg French gov - Not used in any article
- Image:Arrow Launch Day.JPG Could possibly make a fair use claim
- May I remind people that 'what links here' for images has a bug where it only works if the page containing the image was edited since the upgrade to 1.3. For example, Image:Austrasia.JPG is used in Austrasia. So all claims of 'Not used in any article' above are dubious.
- Ah, I thought that had finally been fixed. Guess not. —Morven 21:24, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
- So what is the ruling on DW's listing these as "Government of France public domain photo"? Is that a legitimate PD category we can use? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 19:41, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- May I remind people that 'what links here' for images has a bug where it only works if the page containing the image was edited since the upgrade to 1.3. For example, Image:Austrasia.JPG is used in Austrasia. So all claims of 'Not used in any article' above are dubious.
Listings 15 to 30 days old
November 29
- Image:Vaclav klaus.jpg - no info, appearently taken from [1] which states that written permission is needed for use of any material on that site. - JohnyDog 10:37, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- It would seem like we could use some image of the president of a nation under fairuse. Pondering, -- Infrogmation 20:59, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I've replaced it with another image in his article. -- Infrogmation 16:08, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- It would seem like we could use some image of the president of a nation under fairuse. Pondering, -- Infrogmation 20:59, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 2
- Image:Woese.jpg - no info. Joe D (t) 13:26, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Harkness_tower_fall.jpg - whoever uploaded it even included copyright info. So it seems to be copyrighted Chuck 21:42, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 3
- Image:BKL.jpg - whoever uploaded it even included copyright info. So it seems to be copyrighted Chuck 06:12, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Branford courtyard.jpg - same thing Chuck 06:12, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Charltonheston.jpg - Infrogmation 20:19, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Olivianewtonjohn.jpg - tagged as "unverified" since June. -- Infrogmation 20:29, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Nataliewood.jpg - tagged as "unverified" since September. -- Infrogmation 20:29, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Mirasorvino.jpg - tagged as "unverified" since August. -- Infrogmation 20:38, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Tera.jpg - sat around in WP:CP as unresolved "iffy" since September. -- Infrogmation 20:49, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 4
- Image:Stefanlessard.jpg - no info, likely copyright. --Viriditas 00:38, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Dmb.jpg - no info, probably copyright. --Viriditas 00:38, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:CharlieHuntepromo.jpg - no info, but certainly unfree. Suspect it comes from the web site or photo from inside cd sleeve, or both. --Viriditas 00:38, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- if from inside CD sleeve it falls under fair use. Alkivar 00:06, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Well, if someone can identify the source, we can tag it appropriately. -- Infrogmation 16:11, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- if from inside CD sleeve it falls under fair use. Alkivar 00:06, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Ngc6240 composite.jpg - no info; uploader (User talk:Cassini) contacted 7 October 2004 but no response; user inactive for more than one year. I think source images are PD-NASA but this composite is not sourced and may be copyrighted. I'm replacing it in NGC 6240 with a definitely PD-NASA image until we can get this one cleared up. —Tkinias 03:59, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 5
- Image:Glass fish.jpg - no info at all —Tkinias 10:51, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Painted glass fish.jpg - claims copyright-free-use but copyright holder not identified —Tkinias 10:51, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image appears to be lifted from [2]. Site is in Italian, which I can't really read, but I cannot find any assertion that images may be reused freely. It does state "Grafica e HTML di Giorgio Perbellini - © 2000", so we have a copyright holder. —Tkinias 22:18, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I've added a new PD picture of glass fish Image:Painted_Indian_Glassy_Fish.jpg - --Quatermass 14:08, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Porthcurno.jpg - listed as "noncommercial, provided that..." someone be credited. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 19:34, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Here are some from User:SFTVLGUY2, who long tagged anything he wanted to upload as "screenshot" (previously tagged everything as "PD"). I've tried to get him to fix such labels repeatedly, without success. A number have proven to be copyright violations, and I suspect many more would be found to be with research. This batch are tagged as "screenshot"s, though they look not to be. Image:Vivian3.jpg, Image:ThoroughlyModernMillie2.jpg, Image:Nanette.jpg, Image:TheWiz1.jpg, Image:TheWiz2.jpg, Image:Desilu.jpg, Image:Lucy2.jpg, Image:WOO1.jpg, Image:Lee3.jpg, Image:Wicked.jpg -- Infrogmation 21:12, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- For the images on Thoroughly Modern Millie the poster can use the poster fair use tag. {{Poster}} The guy probably called them a screen shot because they were on his computer screen. If it's fairly low resolution than maybe the tag should be a low res tag.
- If/when individual images can have sources identified and be retagged appropriately, fine. As this user did things like yoink images from pages clearly marked as requiring express written permission and tag them as "PD", I'm not inclined to give much benifit of doubt to his mistagged uploads that can't be sourced. -- Infrogmation 16:21, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- For the images on Thoroughly Modern Millie the poster can use the poster fair use tag. {{Poster}} The guy probably called them a screen shot because they were on his computer screen. If it's fairly low resolution than maybe the tag should be a low res tag.
- From the same user as above, these dubiously marked "PD": Image:Petula Clark in Hollywood.jpg, Image:Petula Clark SOM2.jpg, Image:Finians Rainbow.jpg, Image:Little Tramp.jpg, Image:Petula Clark SOM.jpg, Image:Petula Clark Olympia.jpg, Image:Dorothy Malone.jpg, Image:Petula and Tony.jpg, Image:Someone Like You.jpg, Image:Petula Clark Grammy.jpg, Image:Petula Clark.jpg, Image:Petula Clark 2.jpg -- Infrogmation 21:12, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 7
Image:Marchetti.JPG, Image:Slick.jpg, Image:Skyrocket.jpg, Image:Tunnel.jpg, Image:Prius.jpg, Image:Hybrid.jpg, Image:LNGtanker.jpg. From [3]. Apparently uploaded by copyright holder who has been asked to provide license tags.-- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 08:40, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
- I have emailed Peter Welleman to clarify the license on his illustrations, as he makes money selling them it is possible he did not realise we cannot allow "non-commercial use only" images. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 08:52, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
- I moved one of his not listed here to Talk:Ship, and presume it deserves similar attention. --Jerzy(t) 20:14, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)
December 9
Image:A TV.gif - looks like common web clipart, orphan. -Lommer 04:46, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 10
- More from User:SFTVLGUY2 (who recently seems to have left in a huff, in part at least because people kept telling him he should edit according to Wikipedia's stated standards and obey copyrights, so I doubt he'll be providing any info on the actual sources of the images). These dubiously marked as "screenshot"s. Image:Chenoweth1.jpg, Image:Chenoweth2.jpg, Image:Streisand1.jpg, Image:Streisand2.jpg, Image:Streisand3.jpg, Image:Streisand4.jpg, Image:Wicked1.jpg, Image:PeterPan4.jpg.
-- Infrogmation 19:59, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I see nothing dubious about the claim that "PeterPan4.jpg" is a screenshot. I haven't seen the 1924 film, so I can't testify to it, but I can't think of anywhere else this image plausibly might have come from. Tverbeek 01:13, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Really? Image:PeterPan4.jpg looks to me like artwork, not a film frame nor a screenshot at all. Curious. Someone else care to take a look? -- Infrogmation 07:23, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Granted, it's a poor reproduction, so it's not easy to be 100% certain. But I'm an illustrator, and I can't see it as artwork. A book illustration (especially for a children's book) usually wouldn't be that detailed. (And why horizontal?) An illustrator skilled enough to do this wouldn't be so careful about posing the figures so anatomically correctly, rendering the detail of the rocks so clearly... but then let Hook's hook get lost in the clutter behind him, or let the pirates become background clutter to begin with. The shadows are perfect (too perfect; that shit's hard) but at an angle that makes no sense unless this was supposed to be a really well-lit sunset. Too many contradictions. On the other hand, it's completely consistent with the mechanics of 1920's moviemaking: limited-tonal-range B&W film, artificial side/front lighting that casts sharp shadows, fixed cameras that require "stage"-style composition (rather than zooming/panning), etc. Also, Hook's appearance matches the character on the VHS box for that film [4], which strongly implies that the image is taken from there. Occam's razor prefers "it's a film frame" as an explanation. Tverbeek 17:32, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Nonfree images:
- Image:Invisible_Pink_Unicorn_Logo.png - imposes condition that symbol must represent atheism
- Not a problem, as it does in the article. I've added a copyright tag explaining this. Andre (talk) 20:47, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Actually, it is a problem: such a condition absolutely makes the image nonfree (it's not much different from noncommercial terms, for example). You can't place such conditions and be GFDL-compatible; WP's meeting the condition(s) set does not make the image free. Retagging it {{nonfreedelete}}. —Tkinias 01:17, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I have contacted the author. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 12:10, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)
- Image:Illinois_map.jpg - image must not be modified
- I dont understand how they can claim copyright on this, 1) public funded college 2) a state map in this form cannot recieve a copyright. (There is no protectable content, the outline by county comes from a PD map, The font used is public domain.) 3) if it comes down to it you could recreate this from scratch very easily. Alkivar 23:49, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Icefish-large.jpg - New Zealand Crown Copyright
- Image:IanMillar.jpg - Non-commercial only
- Image:Imm3.gif - Non-commercial only
[[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 20:05, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
- Image:FU2948.jpg - possibly deceptive tag by Cheung1303, who has been a repeat offender (see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Cheung1303) —Steven G. Johnson 23:55, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
December 12
- MarySaintJohn has uploaded a large number of images with no copyright information.
- Image:Ovation-international-worlds-biggest-scientist-professor-emeagwali-speaks-to-ovation-in-london-800.jpg
- Image:History-of-the-internet-600.jpg
- Image:New-african-magazine-cover-august-september-2004.jpg
- Image:Emeagwali-petroleum-equations-science-museum-of-minnesota-saint-paul-june-1996.jpg
- Image:Emeagwali-family-in-uromi-nigeria-december-1962.jpg
- Image:Building-higher-dimensional-hypercube-network.gif
- Image:Hypercube-computer-network-with-32-processing-nodes-large.jpg
- Image:Philip-emeagwali-typing-research-paper-15-nw-edgewood-drive-corvallis-oregon-may-1975.jpg
- Image:Emeagwali-hyperball-network-600.jpg
- Image:Emeagwali-gordon-bell-plaque-cathedral-hill-hotel-san-francisco-california-february-28-1990.jpg
[unsigned]
Nonfree images:
- Image:Dfc-m.jpg (Non-commercial use only)
- Image:Des_corcoran.jpeg (Non-commercial use only)
- Image:Don_dunstan.jpg (Non-commercial use only)
- Image:Debian.png (Check compatibility of the Open Publication License with the GFDL.)
- Image:DiodotusII.jpg (Non-commercial use only)
- Image:DiodotusI.jpg (Non-commercial use only)
- Image:DoubleCrestedCormorants.jpg ("Placed in the public domain under GNU conditions"?)
- Image:DesertCottontail.jpg ("Placed in the public domain under GNU conditions"?)
- Image:Downfall_reply.jpg (Required permission to use)
[[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 02:58, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Image:PrinceMangkraSouvannaphouma PrinceNguyenPhucBuuChanh.JPG was listed on WP:CP, but claims "fair use confirmed". -- Infrogmation 23:00, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Newer than 15 days
December 13
- The various images under Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. A licence-savvy person needs to check http://www.gov.pe.ca/ and say exactly what these fall under. The uploading person seemed to believe that Canadian government works are in the public domain, which I know to be untrue, but I'm not certain what tags these should have. - Montréalais 10:22, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 15
- Image:Dominant.gif taken from http://www.gig.org.uk/education2.htm. Looks to be copyrighted such that we cannot use it. -- ClockworkSoul 21:59, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 17
- Image:122_Psh_74.jpg finnish defence forces image. Are thier terms acceptable to wikipedia and if so how should the image be tagged? (new tag copyrightfreeuseprovidedthat or what?) Plugwash 00:54, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Hejazi.jpg. No information on source. →Iñgólemo← (talk) 17:00, 2004 Dec 18 (UTC)
December 18
- Image:Tulsanite.jpg - uploader claims PD, source says no such thing. -- Cyrius|✎ 21:49, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 20
- Image:Agualeguas.jpg - uploader said that According to the site, "There are no usage restrictions for this photo", but site nows says that the photo is no longer in their database. --Ricky81682 (talk) 06:46, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
- That's the problem with uploading from a site. Photos may disappear from a site, even the site may disappear. The same problem will arise more and more in the future. What counts is that, at the moment the photo was uploaded, the copyright tags were right. Anyway the site says : "DOWNLOADING - By downloading material from this site you agree with the following: You may use any of the photos in our system free of charge for any commercial or personal design work if you obey the specified restrictions concerning each photo you download. " Therefore the same copyright tags continue to apply. JoJan 21:29, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- In many cases the information provided by uploaders will be impossible to verify at a later date that is the nature of the web. Where source information has been provided but is no longer accessible and there is no direct (ie a complaint) or indirect (for example a user with a history of uploading copyvios) indication it was faked then we have to take the uploaders word for it or wikipedia would be constantly replacing photos for no good reason. Plugwash 20:55, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:69Boss429.jpg - uploader says "from 1969stang.com" but website says that all of its content is copyright. Delete unless license is found. Andrew pmk 20:57, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I suggest delete and replace with an image found here There is no published copyright information for these photos, no licensing restrictions, and owner says feel free to download and use as you see fit. Its not THAT rare of a car, theres plenty of legal use images of it, if you cant find one, email Ford their REALLY friendly with auto enthusiasts :) Alkivar 03:25, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 21
Image:Danish crown jewels.jpg, Image:Ethiopian crown jewels.jpg, and Image:Hungarian crown jewels.jpg. Three more old images uploaded by User:Isis, these illustrating the Crown Jewels article. (And the first two are of dreadful quality anyway.) -- Infrogmation 18:45, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 22
- Image:Stvking.jpg - originally listed as a speedy delete due to copyright issues but does not qualify for that. Says "uncopyrighted image from a Venezuelan site" on the image. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 13:32, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- replace with this its his official uncopyrighted press head shot. Alkivar 03:29, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- or even this its a Fair Use image from a public funded college newspaper. Alkivar 03:32, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- and if your doing historical work on him his yearbook photos. Alkivar 03:36, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- or even this its a Fair Use image from a public funded college newspaper. Alkivar 03:32, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- replace with this its his official uncopyrighted press head shot. Alkivar 03:29, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Avro Arrows.jpg - DW image with no source uploaded at same time as others listed since September. -- Infrogmation 19:45, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 24
- Image:LHC5.jpg - damn, I feel like the Grinch for listing this here... but even cool Web trivia has to have copyright info... :( —Tkinias 02:57, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Its a scanned source according to the article. CD cover? if so it falls as fair use. Alkivar 03:39, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 25
- Image:Tonyblair1.jpg - Surely this is crown copyright, not public domain? ed g2s • talk 02:19, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Nonfree images:
Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 04:48, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC) Nonfree images:
- Image:Ekans.png (Pokemon image)
- Image:Egg.gif (Permission had been granted)
Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 04:56, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC) Nonfree images:
Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 05:43, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC) Nonfree images:
- Image:LaBourdaisiere.JPG (status doubtful)
- Image:Laurier.JPG (status doubtful)
- Image:Lambton_County,_Ontario,_Canada_-_simple_map.gif (Non-commercial use only)
- Image:Lasgo.jpg ()
- Image:Evi_Goffin.jpg (another one posted by same user as Lasgo.jpg) Alkivar 07:24, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 06:28, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)
December 26
Nonfree images:
- Image:Lappetvult.jpg (May well be limited to non-commercial use) Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 08:28, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
- "for educational and non-profit making purpose" sure sounds like a nonfree restriction. —Tkinias 20:54, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 27
- Image:001-000115.004.jpg reproduction prohibited —Tkinias 01:31, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:72ReliantSuperRobin.jpg terms limit modification —Tkinias 01:31, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:91744ti.jpg no 3d party use —Tkinias 01:31, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:A1gpcarJerez.jpg no 3d party use —Tkinias 01:36, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Aircraft-metfink.jpg no 3d party use —Tkinias 01:36, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:America's Cup.jpg on-line use only, no 3d party use —Tkinias 02:02, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:GINCO-Iimage.png - claims PD, however this is a work funded by the German government. As far as I know, German government works are not automatically public domain, this isn't a work of the German government anyway, and there's a © at the bottom of the page it's taken from. -- Cyrius|✎ 07:12, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 28
- Image:Aurora Snow.jpg, from [6] and Image:Asia-carrera.jpg from [7]. Sat in WP:CP since September unresolved. -- Infrogmation 17:18, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Tonibraxton2.jpg uploader marked it as "Copyright used with permission for educational purposes" and Image:Tonibraxton.jpg "copyright reserved beyonfd educational purposes". (Whoo, those images sure are educational too ;-) )-- Infrogmation 17:54, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Image:Heathergraham.jpg "permission for ed ucation copyright" -- Infrogmation 18:02, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)