Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Kumarrajendran

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All contributors with no history of copyright problems are welcome to contribute to clean up.

If contributors have been shown to have a history of extensive copyright violation, it may be assumed without further evidence that all of their major contributions are copyright violations, and they may be removed indiscriminately in accordance with Copyright violations. However, to avoid collateral damage, efforts should be made when possible to verify infringement before removal.

When every section is completed, please alter the listing for this CCI at CCI to include the tag "completed=yes". This will alert a clerk that the listing needs to be archived.

Text

 * Examine the article or the diffs linked below.
 * If the contributor has added creative content, either evaluate it carefully for copyright concerns or remove it.
 * If you remove text presumptively, place   on the article's talk page.
 * If you specifically locate infringement and remove it (or revert to a previous clean version), place   on the article's talk page. The url parameter may be optionally used to indicate source.
 * If there is insufficient creative content on the page for it to survive the removal of the text or it is impossible to extricate from subsequent improvements, replace it with, linking to the investigation subpage in the url parameter. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor. Your note on the CCI investigation page serves that purpose.
 * To tag an article created by the contributor for presumptive deletion, place  on the article's face and   on the article's talk page. List the article as instructed at the copyright problems board, but you do not need to notify the contributor.


 * After examining an article:
 * replace the diffs after the colon on the listing with indication of whether problem was found (add y) or not (add n). If the article is blanked and may be deleted, please indicate as much after the y.
 * Follow with your username and the time to indicate to others that the article has been evaluated and appropriately addressed. This is automatically generated by four tildes ( ~ )


 * If a section is complete, consider collapsing it by placing collapse top and collapse bottom beneath the section header and after the final listing.

Images

 * Examine the images below. For free images:
 * Does the image look non-free? Is it likely the uploader is the copyright holder?
 * Is the image properly licensed and sourced? Be aware of images that say "this image is licensed under X" without specifying who created it.
 * Do a reverse image search using TinEye. Check the license of the source page. Compare the last modified time with the (Commons) upload time.
 * Do a Google image search for phrases that describe the image's contents.
 * See Guide to image deletion on dealing with cases of possible image copyright infringement. There is no need to open a possibly unfree files listing. Administrators may delete images from multiple point infringers presumptively in accordance with Copyright violations. Evaluators who are not administrators may section images into a "deletion requested" section for administrator attention.


 * For non-free images, determine whether each image meets our non-free content criteria.
 * Note that Commons does not accept non-free content.
 * Annotate the listing with the action taken, e.g. if the image was tagged no source write "no source"; if the fair use claim is deemed ok you can write "OK fair use".

Background
 Kumarrajendran
 * Reported by Sitush (talk)
 * User's talk page and discussion at User_talk:Magog the Ogre/Archive_14, plus block log, demonstrate numerous copyright issues regarding uploaded images, some of which are probably replicated at Commons. User is currently indef blocked for copyvio. Sitush (talk) 19:36, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Some background: The editor is the adopted grandson of M. G. Ramachandran and Janaki Ramachandran (see here) and has "inherited" some photographic collections. The copyright status isn't very clear on individual images -- does he hold the rights vs. have an image? User:Sodabottle had confirmed his ownership of these collections and identity off-wiki (for ta.wiki purposes) in 2009/2010.&mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  19:49, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * To help with assessing these I have created an overview page here which contains a table giving basic details about each image. I hope this is useful. Boissière (talk) 22:47, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * To help with assessing these I have created an overview page here which contains a table giving basic details about each image. I hope this is useful. Boissière (talk) 22:47, 23 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I can confirm Spiff's note above. This editor is a family member of Janaki Ramachandran - his grandfather is janaki's brother. (i confirmed this off wiki with someone who knows both of us). He is currently associated with a group of educational institutions in Chennai. His uploads fall under two broad categories - images taken during various functions/events in the above said group of educational institutions and the scans of old photo albums. All the images that fall under the first category have metadata and proper licensing. It is highly likely that the user himself took the photos.( For instance the person on the left in this image is the uploader's mother). The second set of images are from family albums (period - 1960s through 80s). These images have never been seen in the internet before they were uploaded here. M. G. Ramachandran and Janaki Ramachandran did not have any children. So i believe, this editor and his family own the copyrights to the albums. The editor has sort of confirmed this in some deletion discussions in 2009.  AFAIK, he did upload a couple of images from Tamil Nadu govt website claiming they were in public domain ( a common mistake a lot of Indian editors make). Hope this helps.--Sodabottle (talk) 16:49, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

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