File talk:Zhang Zeduan Along the River During the Qingming Festival detail.jpg

Attribution Note

I am trying to trace the history and sourcing of this particular image.

Unfortunately, it appears that the uploader has passed away and is unable to reply.

I believe that this work ought to have been initially attributed into the Public Domain. It is a cropping of the 18th century remake of the original 12th century "Along the River during the Qingming Festival" scroll.

I note that while the uploader has made extensive contributions to Wikimedia and digital preservation, I believe they have made some errors in uploading media.

Upon a non-exhaustive review, their upload File:William Blake illustration to Night Thoughts Plate 01.jpg in March 2013 is a public domain work. They followed this with File:William Blake illustration to Night Thoughts Plate 01-detail.jpg in June 2014. This second file is merely a cropping with no discernable differences (other than very clear .jpg decay). There is nothing transformational about the second file, and thus it is improperly labeled under CCA 3.0 when it should be a public domain object.

Similarly, this image is a cropping of a public domain work. It appears that there are instances of this file (with enhanced coloring and shading) being uploaded to Chinese media site "NiPic.com" in April 2008, as logged on TinEye but unavailable through its links. (If a Chinese language user could check into this, that would be greatly appreciated).

In the meantime, I will be updating this file as Public Domain and adding the image data from the original work. There are instances of the uploader cropping public domain images and classifying them as "Own Work" and Licensing them under CCA 3.0. This is a cropping of a public domain work, and there is evidence to suggest that it is not the uploader's own work by existing on the internet up to 6 years before date of this upload. DBlasioN (talk) 16:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)