Gerard Meijssen wrote: What needs to be done here is to research exactly who may be correct. Many WWII photographs are likely to still be under copyright (the life+75 rule has not gone into effect yet, or the 100 year rule... depending on what copyright laws you are using, and was published after 1924 when prior copyright had entered into public domain) and my gut feeling is that it is likely to be a copyright violation. When I throw stuff onto Commons, I make extra sure that I cite exactly where I got the image and what the terms and conditions of that image were. Too often an assumption was that it was on a government website, therefore it is 100% legal to put on Commons. That is rarely the case. Images without a specific URL to where the image was uploaded from (making it easier to check PD status) or a specifc statement from the user claiming to have scanned in a photograph in their possession (or have taken it with their own equipment) I find highly suspicious. Images that simply have {{PD}} and no other comments I find especially suspicious. They may be public domain images, but there is no basis to confirm this fact. One way to also check on this is to do a Google image search. This would at least try to see if similar photos are on other websites and if the person who is complaining is making a stink about copyright on something they don't own (such as some people I've seen claim copyright on Wikipedia content and then ask for Wikipedia to remove it). I wouldn't spend too much time trying to track down an image in this manner, however. -- Robert Scott Horning

Hi, Le Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:06, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : I think the solution is quite easy. Ask this person who is the photgrapher of this picture and when this photographer died if he knows it. If he doesn't know who is the photographer, I would think that he doesn't own the copyright of the picture. It doesn't mean that the picture is in the public domain, but at least he can't give you any trouble. That's what I did with a German organisation who claims copyright of Gandhi's photos I uploaded in Commons. I doubt very much this organisation owns any copyright on these pictures and I am still waiting for its answer, two months after my mail. Regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

You can send a mail to juriwiki-l if you want assistance. You can also come on IRC where I am very often connected. Le 20 juil. 05 à 21:06, Gerard Meijssen a écrit :