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Upload free icons to Commons

Hi, I checked this URL [1] and found they are free to download, so is it possible to upload them to Commons? PS: some icons are really helpful for demonstrating content in Wikibooks or Wikiversity.  A l p h a m a  ^Talk 03:38, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Whats their license ? Free as in costs or free as in restrictions? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 06:43, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

https://home.streamlinehq.com/license-free

some are ccby4. dont know which sets are such. RZuo (talk) 08:59, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Now I can see their CC BY 4.0 license in some sets. For example, Freebies-freemojis is a free set and we only see the license when viewing the page source (A cute vector emoji set that you can use in your applications, websites or publications. Licensed under the Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0.).  A l p h a m a  ^Talk 11:49, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

PD-Venezuela and older works

Hello there. I've been asked to give a statement regarding the PD status of a 1950s official portrait of a Venezuelan president. I am not really sure if the final law cited in the PD-VenezuelaGov template applies retroactively. It says: "Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y las Trabajadoras (Labor Law), on May 7, 2012, Article 325. Intellectual products generated under an employment relationship in the public sector—or financed through public funds—that generates intellectual property rights, will be considered to be in the public domain, while maintaining the authors' rights to public recogniti"o Since this is a labor law, not a copyright or intellectual property law per se, I am not certain this applies retroactively. In the particular case, the pertinent template is PD-Venezuela as it only protects works for 60 years and it is in the public domain, safely, in Venezuela. However, for later works I'm not sure PD-VenezuelaGov could apply. Bedivere (talk) 16:07, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Updating an official logo

I work in the marketing department for a community college and I have been put in charge of making sure all of our public information is correct. I noticed that there are some needed changes to some of the data on the college's page, en:Doña Ana Community College, as well as the logo. That logo was never accurate. We have never used that color blue, and there have been some additional changes to the specifics of the logo itself, and I would like to upload a current, accurate version of the logo. However, the Wiki image process indicates that we cannot upload logos. How do I rectify this problem? Also, it has been many a year since I edited a Wiki page, under a different user account (I created this one for the college so others in my department could take over the role as needed), but I have read through the How-To section so I feel confident I can manage just fine. I just really want to get that logo updated, and I would also like to add a banner-type image of one of our campuses with mountains in the background. This image was taken by one of us in this department, using college equipment, so it automatically belongs to the school. How would I get around copyright infringement in this instance? Dona Ana CC (talk) 22:11, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

The simplest way is to post any images you want to upload on the college's official website with a clear indication that those images are available under a free licence compatible with COM:L. You can then upload your images here and provide a link to your website when the upload form asks for the source of the image.

If the college is not the copyright owner, or you don't want to place the images on your website, you can use the COM:VRT process, which lets you submit permission to release under a suitable licence and proof of copyright ownership via email. From Hill To Shore (talk) 22:36, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@Dona Ana CC: do also make sure you read en:WP:COI before editing the English-language Wikipedia (which I presume is the one you mean by "the college's page"). As a person editing about your own employer, you need to make a disclosure before editing en-wiki, and there are certain limitations on what you can do there. (Not an issue for Commons, but just giving you a heads-up). - Jmabel ! talk 04:21, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

@Dona Ana CC: You make a request at en:Wikipedia:Files for upload and ask someone to upload the correct logo for the college as non-free content locally to English Wikipedia. In you're request, you should provide a link a website showing the correct logo and also a link to the article where you'd like the file to be used. If the logo isn't something completely different, it might even be possible for someone to simply update the currently used file (en:File:Dona Ana Community College logo - 2014.png) with a more accurate version of the logo. You will only be able to upload the file to Commons if you can get the copyright holder (assuming that's the college) to agree to release it under a license acceptable for Commons as explained in COM:L or the logo is considered to simple to eligible for copyright protection under US copyright law per en:threshold of originality. If you're unable to clearly demonstrate either of these two things, the logo should be uploaded locally to English Wikipedia as non-free. Finally, you posted I created this one for the college so others in my department could take over the role as needed above, but that's not something allowed per English Wikipedia policy as explained here. English Wikipedia accounts aren't allowed to be shared or passed on to others and you should be the only one using your account now and forever. If there comes a time, for whatever reason, that someone else replaces you in your position at the college, that person should create a new account for English Wikipedia and edit using it. Just for reference, you can use this account to also edit on English Wikipedia or any other Wikimedia Foundation project page if you want; you don't need to create a new account for each project, but only you should be using this account. However, your current username is a violation of English Wikipedia's username policy regarding promotional and implied shared use usernames; so, you will need to modify your username if you want to use this account to edit English Wikipedia. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:16, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Is this Driver's License Photo PD?

So there has been a lot of postings of Nicole Brown Simpson's California Driver's Licence, which Getty Images also attributes it was released by the DMV. While I think that it could be PD-CAGov, I wanna know if The California DMV does claim copyright on old Licenses? I'm also a bit worried that the picture looks more like a digital release of the License instead of how the licenses looked in the early 90's (see here). Hyperba21 (talk) 18:13, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

The photo appears to be from the DMV's copy, not the license itself, so that's not a concern. It appears to be PD-CAGov. I note that what is now section 12800.5(a)(2) of the California Vehicle Code (prohibiting distribution of the photo, making it not a public record, and therefore not PD) was passed in 1999 (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/statute.html, chapter 489), and the photo (and release of the photo) is older than that. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

If so, should I put another licence tag aside PD-CaGov? Or just a note that pre-1999 Cali Licenses or Pictures are PD? Hyperba21 (talk) 07:54, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Good morning

I took several pictures and I do not know how to license them. In general, I am the copyright holder. Is it possible after the administration has decided to license these pictures?

Category:Abdel Naser Abdel Fatah

Paula Fenness (talk) 03:07, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

@Paula Fenness: Please see the information given on your talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:06, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Images relating to state legislation, Australia

I would like to find out about uploading images (for a wikipedia article) relating to state legislation (on a particular topic) in Australia. The images are either individual pages of documents available but obscure, from the internet, or images of pages/maps not available on the internet, such as from the state archives. Reasons I'd like to be able to use them are that they would provide information that is (1) very difficult to find or cross-reference or (2) not available to the public if I were only to reference it. Cheyne (talk) 05:16, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

If the government documents have been published, they are copyrighted for 50 years from the publication in Australia. Unpublished documents are copyrighted in perpeturity. Ruslik (talk) 19:29, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

50 years from creation, actually, so we don't need to know about publication -- just that the Australian government would own the copyright. {{PD-AustraliaGov}}. If it's in government archives but created by non-government authors, that would not necessarily be the case, and copyright would have to expire by other means. There are not enough details given to answer the question though. It tends to matter a lot about who authored a work, and which country it was first published in (so we know which country's copyright laws to look at to see when it would expire). Carl Lindberg (talk) 13:25, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

@Cheyne: I answered your near-identical query where you first posted it, at Commons:Help desk#Images relating to state legislation, Australia. Please don't ask in multiple venues, as it crates extra work for our volunteers. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:01, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Upload a pic from ISUU.com

I wish to add a pic of Colonel Luigi Evangelisti that in 1870 was the commander of the gendarms of Pope Pio IX. I found it in a old (1920) text that is available here https://issuu.com/rivista.militare1/docs/il_brigantaggio_e2c5671ec6ba98 but I do not know if I am allowed. Thks for any help! PilotaDD (talk) 09:49, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes, this is in the public domain. here is a copy which could be uploaded to Commons. I can't find the author's death date, but he could be him. I am nearly certain he is the same person, as per [2] and [3]. Not to be confused with someone of the same name who wrote about agriculture in the 1970s. Yann (talk) 10:23, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

@Yann: Did you paste the right link there? PilotaDD links to "IL BRIGANTAGGIO E L'OPERA DELL'ESERCITO ITALIANO" (Rome, 1920) while you have linked to "Corpi volontari italiani dal 1848 al 1870" (Rome, 1921). From Hill To Shore (talk) 10:55, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

OOPS, right. But still probably the same person, unless we have a third author with the same name publishing in the same period, i.e. [4] and [5]. Yann (talk) 12:33, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Same author but different book. And the picture of Colonel Evangelisti is not there.9 PilotaDD (talk) 19:07, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

1934 painting by Georgia O'Keeffe

File:19 - ofty8zO (50062828047).jpg, transferred from Flickr where it was uploaded with a bogus CC licence, is actually a 1934 painting by American painter Georgia O'Keeffe, titled Purple Hills Ghost Ranch - 2 / Purple Hills No II per [6]. I'm not sure, is this copyrighted in the US, or is it some kind of PD-no-notice/-not-renewed? I couldn't find it with a quick search at [7], but would like to make sure if we can keep the file or need to delete it for a few more years. --Rosenzweig τ 21:29, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Same for File:64 - YZ9s7jg (50062578451).jpg, a 1939 painting by O'Keeffe titled White Bird of Paradise per [8]. --Rosenzweig τ 21:47, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

There is also the issue of publication; Regarding the 1934 painting, its early exhibitions were:

1935 New York (An American Place), nos. 27 or 28, as Red Hill form--Bad Lands, New Mexico

1936 New York (An American Place), no. 7, as Dark Hills, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

1938 Williamsburg ?

1988 Phoenix, no. 22

So if it was not catalogued with a reproduction, it would have to have been exhibited without any steps taken to prevent copying for it to count as publication. Felix QW (talk) 19:04, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

The second painting linked was only exhibited once at An American Place in 1940, and then not exhibited again until 2009 (https://collections.okeeffemuseum.org/object/1148/#about-this-object-details).

It seems from the MoMa records of other O'Keeffe paintings as if the "An American Place" exhibitions were not catalogued, and took place in a commercial gallery, so it is conceivable that they were not "published" until after formalities had been abolished.

Indeed, the link posted above from the print shop gives a 2009 copyright date for the White Bird of Paradise and a 1997 copyright date for the 1934 painting, and that does seem plausible to me. In that case, the paintings would be copyrighted until 2056. Felix QW (talk) 19:40, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Displaying an artwork in a commercial gallery usually means that is being offered to the public for purchase, which makes it an act of publication. Toohool (talk) 20:31, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Good point! I always thought that copies would have to have been offered rather than merely the original, but COM:Publication does mention that sale of the original would be sufficient. @Clindberg: Do you have any insight that could help with this situation? I usually refer to your posts whenever there is a complex question of early US publication... Felix QW (talk) 13:51, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Logo's copyright.

I got many warnings from my uploading file of companies' logos. If my deleted file such as File:Pavarie logo.svg; File:Expasa logo.svg ; File:Pasar logo.svg crosses the threshold of originality, then all works listed on Commons will be subject to deletion. So I think the decision was not appropriate. Luke atlas (talk) 02:07, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

@Luke atlas: Each country's threshhold of orignality isn't necessarily the same and in some cases those differences might be what determines whether a file is kept by Commons. Commons requires that the content it hosts be acceptably licensed under US copyright law and under the copyright law the country of first publication. The United States, for example, has a threshold of originality that's relatively high and requires a greater degree of creativity be exhibited for something to be eligible for copyright protection, than the UK does. So, there are many logos of UK origin that would be ineligible for copyright protection in the US but which are considered protected in the UK, and thus aren't OK for Commons. Since the files you're asking about have already been deleted, only a Commons administrator can see them. If you feel they were deleted by mistake, you can seek clarificaiton from the Commons administrator who deleted them. You can also seek a deletion review if you like. Please understand though that borderline case logos are often deleted as a precaution per COM:PCP, absent a clear community consensus they're OK for Commons. In those cases, you may want to consider uploading the logo locally to one of the various language Wikipedias if they permit non-free/fair use content to be uploaded and used. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Assuming those logos are from Japan, just the fact that the design "shows creativity" is enough to make them eligible for copyright. Very low threshold. - Jmabel ! talk 09:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Чунер Михайлович Таксами.jpg

Is anyone able to verify the licensing of File:Чунер Михайлович Таксами.jpg? The source url is dead and I'm unable to find an archived version. The uploader has several file related notifications on their user talk page that resulted in files being deleted; so, this one might need a closer look. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

An archived version of their rights page did mention CC0, though with Google Translate they also seem to have requested a link, and also no clue if the photo was actually taken by them (meaning did they have the rights to license it in the first place). Carl Lindberg (talk) 13:42, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Photo from 1900

Am I right in thinking I can upload the photograph here https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/en/persons/alexius-meinong with the tag {{PD-Austria}}. I believe it was taken in 1900 by Carl Pietzner who died in 1927, but do I also need to know when it was first published before uploading? Shapeyness (talk) 10:28, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

{{PD-Austria}} is for "simple" photographs, not portrait photographs like this one. It's said to be from "Pietzner, Graz", so I doubt it's from Carl Pietzner himself, who was based in Vienna since 1895 (but owned several photo studios in other Austrian cities). The photo is said to be from 1900 though, so I think you can upload it with {{PD-old-assumed-expired}}. For studio photographs which are at least 120 years old we usually assume they were also published around that time unless we have knowledge of some fact which says otherwise. --Rosenzweig τ 10:44, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok thanks Rosenzweig. Shapeyness (talk) 13:08, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

PD-textlogo

Buenas ,una pregunta que pasaría si el logo en Venezuela es simple (ToO simple,por ejemplo el logo del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela:File:Psuv (Venezuela) logo.svg) y si público un logo simple en Venezuela es posible agregará el {{PD-textlogo}} porque según el COM:Venezuela no dice nada del "Threshold of Originality" pero será posible agregar el template {{PD-textlogo}}?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 11:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Como no hay información del umbral de originalidad venezolano, no hay que ser tan astutos. Yo solo me guiaría por letras y figuras geométricas, a lo más una estrella, como el caso que ejemplificas, pero no más allá de eso. Bedivere (talk) 03:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

@Bedivere:Gracias, por la opinión AbchyZa22 (talk) 11:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel:Buenas, dime una opinión con respecto a este tema?? AbchyZa22 (talk) 11:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

No conozco en tan detalle las leyes Venezolanos. - Jmabel ! talk 21:36, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Uploading a picture of a design object that is also useful

I would like to upload a new version of this image: de:Datei:Engler-geschirr.jpg

Because I took a picture of the same display recently and have it at a higher resolution.

Does this qualify as a "useful article", even though it is exhibited as a design object? Tomebuilder (talk) 01:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Per Commons:Overwriting existing files, you should upload your photo as a separate file. Whether those cups are protected by copyright (and not design rights) in Germany is anyone's guess; per de:Heike Wiechmann#Geburtstagszug-Urteil I think they are not. In the US, COM:UTIL should apply. --Rosenzweig τ 07:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

A large number of local flags and coats of arms do not have the correct copyright information.

For local flags or emblems, the copyright of these images belongs to the regional government. However, there are a large number of flags and coats of arms that are not labeled with correct copyright information, classifying the copyright information of these images as their own works.

Generally, the flags and heraldic images that can be uploaded are:

• The government gives up its copyright claims or places it in the public domain as a "national symbol".
• The designer of the flag or coat of arms died 70 years later.
• A United States flag or coat of arms designed before February 28, 1989.
• Coat of arms and flags designed after March 1, 1989, in California, Florida, and Massachusetts.
• Some flags and coats of arms of the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries that have lost their crown copyright.
• Flags and coats of arms whose designs are too simple to meet the threshold for copyright protection, such as the city flag of Spokane, Washington, may be protected by copyright, whereas the city's complex emblem may be protected by copyright.

In current practice, the following examples of authorizations comply with the regulations:

• File:Flag of Berlin.svg: The German government considers flags and coats of arms national symbols and waives copyright claims.
• File:Flag of Anchorage, Alaska.svg: United States flags and coats of arms designed before February 28, 1989.
• File:Flag of Spokane, Washington (2021).svg: Flags and coats of arms that do not meet the copyright threshold.

The following flags and coats of arms cannot be uploaded to commons as they are most likely to be protected by copyright:

• w:File:City of Spokane Seal.svg: Flags and coats of arms designed after 1 March 1989 and with complex designs
• w:File:Flag of Seattle.svg: Flags and coats of arms designed after 1 March 1989 and with complex designs

However, the following examples show that these flags and coats of arms are not marked with correct copyright information, as listed below:

• File:Flag of Marrakech province.svg
• File:Coat of arms of Toronto.svg
• File:Flag of Toronto, Canada.svg
• File:Flag of Córdoba, Spain.svg

There is no room for sloppiness in the copyright licensing of flags and coats of arms. I hope the community will pay attention to it. Thank you! Fumikas Sagisavas (talk) 05:56, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

@Fumikas Sagisavas: What are your thoughts on {{CoA from blazon}}? From Hill To Shore (talk) 06:09, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

This is a pretty common misconception. Each drawing of a seal can have its own copyright -- they are independent from the written description. See Commons:Coats of arms. So yes, one drawing can be "own work" by a contributor, a drawing from 100 years ago can be expired, and still other drawings can be under full copyright. The governments in question do not own the copyright of any drawing, unless done by one of their employees. The design is an idea, and each drawing a separate expression of that idea -- see Idea–expression distinction. Copyright protects only the specific expression, not the idea. If one drawing copies particular outlines etc. from another, then it is a derivative work (expression was copied), and the copyright status of the original matters. Any copyright in the written design is a literary work, and is based on the particular words chosen, which is the "expression". (Rewording an idea would also be a separate expression of the same idea.) A drawing pretty much cannot be derivative of a written work. (In most cases, the written design is part of law, and is PD-EdictGov in the U.S. anyways.) So in general, the date of a general design is not material to the copyright of a particular drawing. We avoid copying drawings from other places, as they could well have a copyright. Some countries may deny copyright to such drawings, but unsure that holds everywhere, or for privately-made drawings. For one example, en:File:Coat of arms of Canada.svg is the official vector drawing of Canada's coat of arms. Even though the design dates from 1921, the particular drawing dates from 1994, and the vectorization is even newer (a vectorization can have a copyright on top of the original drawing). That is non-free, as it is protected by Crown Copyright. On the other hand, File:Royal Coat of arms of Canada.svg is on Commons, an independent drawing of the same design made by a contributor here. That one is correctly under a CC license as the copyright of the uploader. Carl Lindberg (talk) 22:59, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Files from Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank

From 2023-11-23 07:05 to 2023-11-24 17:26, KOKUYO uploaded around 900 files about the Golden Horse Awards hosted on Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (TCMB) from various photographers (mostly from Central News Agency). It appears at the time of upload, all of them were marked with PDM (eg. this link). However, at some point TCMB decided to change their license to CC-BY-ND-3.0 (eg. the same picture from the current link).

So, is it correct to conclude that their PDM marking at the beginning is voided after the license change, and the files should not be hosted on Commons? As this would be a large-scale deletion if a deletion request had to be opened, I'd like to consult opinions from more sources.廣九直通車 (talk) 10:37, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

@KOKUYO: Notifying uploader.廣九直通車 (talk) 10:37, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

確實如你所說，他們在我上傳完之後，資料庫就突然更改了照片授權。上次有一張照片有被提刪，我那時候就有說如果不能留的話，那就要把該分類同類型照片全數刪除，但我本來以為上次就已經批量刪除了。如果確定這個授權是可以從開放轉變成不開放，那也就只好批量刪除了。--～～～～

上次就是我提刪的（雖然好像你沒有這樣回答？），當時還不知道背後居然有接近900多張圖片這麽多就是了。目前先咨詢一下我的見解是否正確然後再確定進一步的行動。廣九直通車 (talk) 13:19, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Screenshot taken from video found on the US Library of Congress' official website

Would en:File:JoyWilliamsLOC2021.jpeg uploaded to English Wikipedia as non-free content be acceptable for Commons under a {{PD-USGov-LOC-created}} license? The screenshot comes from an interview posted on the LOC's official YouTube channel. The YouTube file is released under the standard YouTube license, but the same interview can be found here of the LOC's official website. There's a boilerplate licensing statement on the LOC's page that states

While the Library of Congress created most of the videos in this collection, they include copyrighted materials that the Library has permission from rightsholders to present. Rights assessment is your responsibility. The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions.

Any opinions on whether this screenshot is PD? -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:23, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

 Comment Original source is https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9956 Copyright information there is:

While the Library of Congress created most of the videos in this collection, they include copyrighted materials that the Library has permission from rightsholders to present. Rights assessment is your responsibility. The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may also be content that is protected under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. However, the information we have may not be accurate or complete.

Yann (talk) 11:56, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

File:American way of life.jpg

Hi, This is a great image, but I have some doubt about the copyright claim. If it was renewed, should it be by Margaret Bourke-White or by Life? Thanks, Yann (talk) 17:12, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

It sounds like Margaret Bourke-White was an employee, so Life would have held the copyright as a work for hire (or Time, Inc.). Their issues were supposed to have been renewed per UPenn. The Feb 15 1937 issue was registered (B329224) and renewed on July 21 1964 (R342567).[9] If it was published separately without notice it may be OK but we'd probably need some evidence. Looks like it was originally uploaded as "own work" but changed to no-notice a few years ago, but no description as to why. Carl Lindberg (talk) 02:02, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

I found the issue where it was published: Life, February 15th, 1937, p.9. She doesn't seem to be credited if that matters. So Commons:Deletion requests/File:American way of life.jpg‎. Yann (talk) 11:27, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Chris Sharma Petzl video

I found a video on Commons of a famous rock climber Chris Sharma by equipment manufacturer Petzl here File:Chris Sharma - BACK in Céüse - Sport climbing and bolting in France.webm. Petzl have done excellent quality climbing vides that they license freely such as on youtube here and here. However this Chris Sharma video is also on Petzl's website here, but it is not clear what the licensing is? It is also on Petzl's youtube feed here but it is not listed as freely licensed? I would love to use stills from this video on various Chris Sharma Wikipedia articles, but there is not point if the original licensing is suspect? Aszx5000 (talk) 21:14, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Early Mickey Mouse intertitles

Hello there! I have found File:Title - The Mad Doctor.png is in the public domain as it was not renewed. The intertitle/title card is the same used in many early Mickey Mouse cartoons. Since this design is already public domain, could I upload the other ones (only title differs)? I have already done that for the 1929 intertitles which are essentially the same as those of 1928 (category:Mickey Mouse intertitles) Bedivere (talk) 00:36, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Generalstabsarzt Dr. med. Ralf Hoffmann als Chef des Stabes Kommando Sanitätsdienst der Bundeswehr.jpg

Hello everyone, is the image in question in the public domain and can it really be uploaded here? For me, the paragraph under which the image has supposedly been uploaded (§ 5 Urheberrechtsgesetz) does not refer to images, but only to published legal texts and regulations in Germany. I would be very grateful for an assessment from someone who is familiar with this. --Godihrdt (talk) 10:49, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

You're right, this is not an official work and not in the public domain. Thank you for reporting the problem; I've filed a deletion request: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Generalstabsarzt Dr. med. Ralf Hoffmann als Chef des Stabes Kommando Sanitätsdienst der Bundeswehr.jpg. --Rosenzweig τ 13:50, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Even if I think it's a pity, it still refers to other pictures:

• File:181004 GOSA Dr Baumgärtner Insp Kdo SanDstBw Dittrich 018.jpg
• File:Generalstabsarzt_Dr._Holtherm.jpg
• File:Jürgen Blätzinger.jpg
• File:Hubertus Grunhofer.jpg
• File:Wolfgang Krawietz.jpg
• File:Ingo Patschke.jpg
• File:Mit einem Handschlag besiegelt Generaloberstabarzt Dr. Michael Tempel (M.) die Kommandoübergabe von Generalstabsarzt Dr. Erika Franke (l.) an Generalarzt Dr. Gesine Krüger (r.).jpg
• File:Erika Franke.jpg
• File:Gunter Desch.jpg
• File:Roland Hemeling.jpg
• File:Karsten Ocker.jpg
• File:Flottillenadmiral Jens Nemeyer.jpg
• File:Theodor Joedicke.jpg
• File:Matthias Jaeger.jpg
• File:Eberhard Daerr.jpg
• File:Georg Finger (Sanitätsoffizier).jpg
• File:Bernhard Häfner.jpg
• File:Hans-Georg Stemann.jpg
• File:Michael Tempel.jpg
• File:Volker Grabarek.jpg
• File:Generalarzt Dr. Gesine Krüger (l.) übernimmt die Führung der Sanitätsakademie der Bundeswehr von Generaloberstabsarzt Dr. Michael Tempel (r.).jpg
• File:Flottillenadmiral Wilhelm Tobias Abry.jpg
• File:1968 FAdm Ostertag.jpg
• File:Karl Wilhelm Demmer.jpg
• File:Wilhelm Albrecht.jpg
• File:Kurt-Bernhard Nakath.jpg
• File:Albert Klotz (Sanitätsoffizier).jpg
• File:Herbert Hockemeyer.jpg
• File:Ernst Rebentisch.jpg

They are also under the same licence that they are considered to be in the public domain because they are publications of the Bundeswehr. Of course, it would be good if you could continue to use them under a different licence instead of deleting them but I don't see any possibility at the moment. Godihrdt (talk) 16:21, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

I have now submitted these images for deletion; many are from the sadly deceased user Mehlauge, which hasn't stopped the bot from macabrely informing the user of each and every request... Godihrdt (talk) 16:38, 25 April 2024 (UTC)