Hi Toby,
On 4 September 2012 22:06, Toby Hudson tobyyy@gmail.com wrote:
Do we have adequate copyright information, for instance?
I've only looked at one file: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenwaxbill.jpg
And it looks like you could improve the copyright info:
Here the copyright claim is that the author died more than 70 years ago, but there is no illustrator death date listed. So to verify the claim, we would need to do some research. So if you have the date of death, and if the book was published outside the US (here it was apparently London, UK), please provide it.
Also, note that the current copyright template says (after a big warning sign): "You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States." In this case you should use http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-1923.
Toby / User:99of9
Ugh, good catch. It looks like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenwaxbill.jpg might not actually be out of copyright -- it was first published in the UK (not the US as I thought) in 1899, so it remains in copyright for "70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work dies" (as per http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law). F. W. Frohawk, the illustrator, died in 1946 as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Frohawk, so none of his works will enter the public domain until 1946+70+1 = 2017.
I've tagged it for deletion, thanks! We'd still love your feedback on the other images!
cheers, Gaurav