Just a note from a very occasional reader: one of the apparently final determinants made by User:Nv8200p before he deleted the Einstein-Planck images is that Corbis claims it as one of theirs, thus it must be copyrighted. I have found over the years that Corbis has many, many US-government produced images in its catalog that they claim they own the copyright on. They also have many images that are so old that they cannot possibly be still copyrighted (images published first in the early 19th century, for example). I once e-mailed them about this and the person who e-mailed me back said that they were claiming the copyright on the _scans_, not the images themselves.
Which is of dubious legal validity, as all of on here know.
So just a head's up on that. Corbis has no real problem in overextending their copyright claims to things that we would probably not agree with based on our own copyright policies and the goals of a free encyclopedia. As we all know, there is virtually no risk to Corbis for doing so as long as they don't sue anybody for these dubious claims (as the US Copyright Office does not seem to prosecute false copyright claims of this nature). Just because it is in a Corbis catalog does not mean it is not actually public domain -- Corbis is not careful about these things.
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2009/1/12 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:The debates at the time on en-Wikipedia were:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_Ju... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_August_2
But a year later we have this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Max-Planck...
Anyone here know what should be happening with this image?
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