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I suggest that this tag be retired, along with [[Template: PD-user]], because it is not currently legally possible in the U.S. for a person to place their own work in the public domain. I have this on account of the U.S. Copyright Office. At best this tag has no effect; at worst the person using it may take action against Wikipedia later for using works that they legally retain all rights to (although we could make an expensive argument about intent). See [[Wikipedia talk: Image copyright tags#Granting into the public domain]]. [[User:Dcoetzee|Deco]] 06:47, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) |
I suggest that this tag be retired, along with [[Template: PD-user]], because it is not currently legally possible in the U.S. for a person to place their own work in the public domain. I have this on account of the U.S. Copyright Office. At best this tag has no effect; at worst the person using it may take action against Wikipedia later for using works that they legally retain all rights to (although we could make an expensive argument about intent). See [[Wikipedia talk: Image copyright tags#Granting into the public domain]]. [[User:Dcoetzee|Deco]] 06:47, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC) |
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This tag is now deprecated, because works [[Wikipedia: You can't grant your work into the public domain|can't be legally released into the public domain]] by their owner. Prefer {{tl|CopyrightedFreeUse-User}}.[[User:Dcoetzee|Deco]] 23:28, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 23:32, 8 April 2005
Forcing line breaks
Catherine - that fixed it. I was reluctant to put HTML in there to fix it, but that did the job :) RenesisX 04:34, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
Necessary?
It seems to me that this template is subsumed by Template:PD-user, which is more informative. Are there any good arguments for a continued need for the present template? --MarkSweep 00:45, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I'm certainly willing to be swayed by arguments for combining them; as you say, the distinction is not great. The other can be used by anyone tagging submissions, even if they were not the creator themselves, so long as they have evidence that the creator did want the submission to be public domain. This one can only be used by Users who are also creators, who are tagging their own images. I do think there may be some small advantage in separating the two, as far as breaking down into categories the workload of those who may be checking the validity of image copyright tags in the future.
- Not committed to preserving this one, which was created to fill a hole in existing PD tags -- I don't see any problem with using PD-user (which was created a month later) instead -- just adding my two cents. [[User:CatherineMunro|Catherine\talk]] 03:53, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Retire
I suggest that this tag be retired, along with Template: PD-user, because it is not currently legally possible in the U.S. for a person to place their own work in the public domain. I have this on account of the U.S. Copyright Office. At best this tag has no effect; at worst the person using it may take action against Wikipedia later for using works that they legally retain all rights to (although we could make an expensive argument about intent). See Wikipedia talk: Image copyright tags#Granting into the public domain. Deco 06:47, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Deprecated
This tag is now deprecated, because works can't be legally released into the public domain by their owner. Prefer {{CopyrightedFreeUse-User}}.Deco 23:28, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)