Hi Toby,
On 05-Sep-2012, at 9:23 PM, Toby Hudson wrote:
Glad to be of help. I don't have time to go through all your uploads, but here are some notes on a few random samples:
The general point I made in my other email still applies to some of your files
Here are some not currently tagged with a US PD notice (e.g. PD-1923 or PD-old-100): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlides_halesus_CramerStoll.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scotopelia_peliIbisV001P015AA.jpg
Or in some cases they are not tagged with a PD notice applicable to their country of publication: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bassin_Houiller_Du_Gard.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Gattung_Nepenthes_illustration2.j... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simonkai.jpg
Also, some have a license (implying a copyright claim) imported from Flickr. Switching to PD would be more accurate http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aesclepius,_Flora,_Ceres_and_Cupid_ho... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_BioDivLibrary_-_n102_w1150.j...
Thanks so much again for taking the time to check these images out! I've fixed all the images you mentioned, apart from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simonkai.jpg, which was published in 1910, who authorship is unclear. Hopefully the (Hungarian) journal that image is from can tell us who he or she is; I've added this request to the Hungarian Village Pump on the Commons [1].
There's still some images that the Art of Life project is actively working on which need double-checking (see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information_Art_of_Life/Gallery), but the bigger task will be to sort out (1) the hundreds of images which I recently helped bulk-upload into the Commons [2], and (2) sorting out the thousands of BHL images already in the Commons [3], uploaded by different uploaders at different times. Fun!
I've added some information about dealing with UK/EU copyrights amongst BHL images to the BHL project page, emphasizing that both US and EU copyright tags are necessary for content published in the EU (as a lot of BHL's content is). Hopefully, that will help things a bit! It's at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BHL#Copyrights
Best regards, and thanks for the hard work you're doing.
Thanks for the encouragement -- it's much appreciated! :)
cheers, Gaurav
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Kocsmafal#Help_needed_to_check_aut... [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr_batch_uploading/BHL_Art_of_... [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&targ...