File talk:La Fortaleza, the governor's mansion in Puerto Rico.jpg

Copyright Status
The original copyright claims for this image were unsafe. The claim was that it came from ''Educational site at:homepages.udayton.edu/. ../imageK4N.JPG'', but that is a malformed URL, and that it was generic public domain, even though most educational sites are not public domain. I have, however established to my satisfaction that this was a Google images search hit and the mangling of the URL was the result of truncation for display, and therefore have established the true immediate source.

The sub-site that held the image was marked copyright and all rights reserved, however, the image on that site also contains the text:  ''Puerto Rico Econ. Dev. Admin.'', which has been cropped off in the image uploaded here, and when contacted, the site owner said that the image came from the Puerto Rico office of the Economic Development Administration. As this is a part of the US Department of Commerce, I think there are now reasonable grounds for considering this to be in the public domain because it came from a US federal agency.

If it is in the public domain, it is legal to remove an attribution, but I feel that doing so shows bad faith. It would also be better if it were possible to verify the copyright status with the DOC. --David Woolley 14:35, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Image quality
The image here seems to have a gamma of 1.0, rather than the 2.2 that approximates the sRGB standard used on the web. This makes it look too dark. I don't want to fix it until the copyright status fully stabilises. This is a common problem with scans and professional photographs. Most digital cameras conform to sRGB, because most pictures are used on PCs. --David Woolley 14:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)