Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 May 23

23 May 2014
SCV for 2014-05-23 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Douglas Richard Ferguson has two images which are claimed not to be copyright in the US, but may be elsewhere. They are from magazine ads. Is it okay for these images to be used here?  &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 11:44, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, User:Anne Delong. One of them was deleted as a copyvio on Commons, so that would be a clear no for that one. :) However, if an image is actually not copyrighted in the U.S., it can be used on Wikipedia even if it is copyrighted elsewhere. Wikipedia is bound by U.S. copyright law. We do try to respect copyright for countries for which we have no copyright agreements, but the bottom line is that even if a country claims copyright on content that the U.S. does not consider copyrighted (for instance, legislation) we may use it here. C and Non-U.S. copyrights discuss this in more detail. Copyright concerns about images are handled in various locations - I found it confusing when I first started working in that area and so created Guide to image deletion. It tells you when to use possibly unfree files and when to use the various CSD categories. It also talks a little bit about what to do with images on Commons. I hope if you need it, you will find it useful. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:19, 1 June 2014 (UTC)