User talk:20th century publicity stills are mostly public domain

'' Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "20th century publicity stills are mostly public domain", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it's quite long and confusing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 01:50, 10 March 2017 (UTC)'' Hi ! I think one serious trouble with Wikipedia is that a few of the administrators (BUT NOT YOU) are power-hungry, frequently-misinformed, fussbudgets, more interested in deleting the hard work of others rather than contributing text and images of their own. The actions of such administrators drive away text/image contributors and greatly reduce the amount of cash donations Wikipedia receives. But I digress. I chose my user name with this idea in mind... to dissuade/alert administrators before they delete public domain images I might want to upload. '''My user name was selected to make certain administrators- especially those unfamiliar with USA case law- aware of the fact that most of the film/radio/tv/stage publicity stills/posters/press books etc of the early to mid 2oth century are public domain in the USA by court decision. The pre-1923 public domain laws do not apply to such items.''' One can go to Amazon.com to see examples of such images being used freely... no copyright law is being violated by their appearances online. And yet hardly a day passes without hundreds of such post-1923 public domain images being removed from Wikipedia.

If there are rules against names of the length I've chosen, I'm guessing you find such restrictions, and the enforcement of them, rather silly. But, if my name choice might possibly get me kicked off Wikipedia, kindly suggest another one that I might use to prevent this from happening. Thanks very much! 20th century publicity stills are mostly public domain (talk) 11:43, 10 March 2017 (UTC)