User talk:NewYorkActuary/2015

Files for deletion/2015 October 10
I decided to nominate the European image for deletion after "no consensus" in the talk page. --George Ho (talk) 14:06, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Astounding Stories
So far as I know, all post-1933 issues of Astounding Stories remain under copyright. You've uploaded a few of their covers to Commons, which will have to be taken down and reuploaded here with nonfree use rationales, which I'll likely take care of within the next day or two. This page is a really good resource for checking which magazines are out-of-copyright. For SF magazines, there are some surprises -- Galaxy, If, Amazing, and Fantastic never had copyrights renewed (except for a short run of mid-50s Amazings), mostly because the magazines were bought in the 1960s by a couple guys who tried to run them on the cheap (and ended up running them into the ground, decimating the field) and didn't bother with copyright renewal fees. Other, defunct, magazines like Thrilling Wonder and Startling were owned by publishers who recognized that, even though the magazines were long-dead, just one movie or TV sale would more than justify all the copyright renewal fees they'd ever pay on the magazines, and renewed the copyrights. I've been systematically uploading PD covers to Commons for a while now, and expect to be finished (up to 1964 issues, when the need for copyright renewal ends) within a week or so, for most of the eligible magazines --  Galaxy, If, Amazing, Fantastic, Fantastic Adventures, Fantastic Universe, Imagination, Other Worlds, and Planet Stories -- and will be filling in a few shorter-run magazines after that. So using covers to illustrate story articles should be a lot easier than it was a few months back; hope you can use a batch of them. (British magazine all remain under copyright, so far as I know, since their copyright laws were different.) If you'd like help with anything in this area, just let me know. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 23:43, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
 * . Thanks for the info.  Thanks also for the helpful link.  I agree that the image for The Big Front Yard was uploaded to Commons in error.  I've already removed it from the article and I'll be uploading a 'fair use' version in the next day or so.  But the image for "Cat and Mouse" is an interesting case.  I uploaded to Commons because I saw a copy on the Project Gutenberg site, along with a statement that the publication's copyright had not been renewed.  I get the impression that the folks at Gutenberg are pretty conscientious about this sort of thing, so I was inclined to believe them.  And some further research suggests that they got it right.  Take a look at this listing at the Library of Congress catalog -- LoC listing for Oliver's "Transfusion".  Even if you click on the link at that page (the link for that particular issue of Astounding), it just sends you back to the story.  I don't know why that one issue would be different, but it seems that it is.  Thanks again for the info and the link, and I look forward to any further comments you might have.  NewYorkActuary (talk) 00:34, 26 October 2015 (UTC)