Wikipedia:Media copyright questions/Archive/2021/April

Bot keeps removing image

Hi, a bot keeps removing this image File:Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina logo.svg from the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team page. It claims "No valid non-free use rationale for this page" but when I click on the file description page for the image, the non free use rationale is included. Please help.Bosniantennis (talk) 04:12, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

EDIT: sorry, I believe I just figured it out by reading a previous response, each article needs its own non free use rationale included. Bosniantennis (talk) 04:14, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Image of a sculpture for article bout court case regarding it

United States v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster is about a court case about a non-free sculpture. Would a picture of that sculpture be fair-use. There's no free equivalent, and various attributes unique to this specific object were involved in the case, including appearance and siting. I'm not sure how well pure prose captures it. However, it's the case not the object that is the article topic. DMacks (talk) 20:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Yes, it would be reasonable. From a non-free standpoint, its not that the image has to be about the topic, but relevant to the sourced text in that article. So while that article is about the court case, the discussion of the sculpture in depth prior to the case itself (and presuming not discussed anywhere else on WP) would make it reasonable to have non-free image of it. --Masem (t) 20:48, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response! DMacks (talk) 20:52, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Government maps of Sindh villages: are these allowed?

See here: [1]

I checked both Wikimedia's summary of Pakistan's copyright law for government works, as well as the site where I found these maps, and I'm still confused. I don't see any claim of copyright anywhere on the site, but it may be implied (I'm not sure how copyright law in Pakistan works). Would uploading any of these images to Wikimedia be a copyright violation?

Thanks,

3 kids in a trenchcoat (talk) 07:01, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Currently copyright applies even if not claimed with words. https://www.openstreetmap.org is also a place to look for suitable maps to use here. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:05, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Image copyright questions

Hi - I'm a bit wooly about some of the finer details of copyrights with regards to imagery, hoping for a bit of advice from an expert. Please see this image, which is a part of the collection described here. The image dates to circa 1900, but the Canmore website asserts copyright - I'm assuming that we can't use it, but wondering whether pd-US-unpublished might apply? Assuming that we can't use it, what are the rules about creating an image in some sort of drawing package that essentially reproduces it - would that be a prohibited derivative work, would there be any fair use defense? Thanks in advance. GirthSummit _(blether) 10:08, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Updating Maps

These pages have many issues including an out of date map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoua_Department https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoua_Region

If you look at the 2013 reorganization, Tahoua is defined as a region with now 11 départements. You can see an accurate map here. https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/ner_tahoua_factsheet_avril-juin_2020.pdf

But how do i find a map that would not be under copyright to correct the current out-of-date map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minimosher (talk • contribs) 10:51, 5 April 2021 (UTC)