File talk:Post Malone (28150750483).jpg

 

No derivatives

This image was licensed CC BY-ND 2.0

ND stands for No Derivatives, which I took to mean no changes allowed, not even a small change. This image has been cropped, and that also removed a logo which may have been intended as part of the necessary attribution for CC BY

Does this image still comply with the license? -- 109.76.215.105 02:55, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Unknown,

assuming that you are the photographer and put it by yourself on Flickr: when the image was uploaded to Commons in 2017, the license on Flickr was CC-BY, as recorded by our Flickr-Review-Bot[1]. Though Flickr allows to change licenses, such a change is not relevant for those, as Commons, who uploaded it, when it was under the original CC-BY license, as CC licenses are considered to be non-revokable. Portraits of living persons are, independently of the copyright-license, also restricted by the personality rights of the depicted person. So, a demeaning change/edit of such an image is usually not allowed. However, mere cropping usually does not have such an effect. --Túrelio (talk) 08:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

That's a big assume. No I am not the photographer.

I edit Wikipedia sometimes and I notice a lot of people do not check the sources properly, so I checked, and it didn't look like the photo had been licensed in a way that would allow the image to be cropped and the logo removed.

Are you really sure the license was properly checked in the first place? For future reference, how can a person check to see if the license has been changed?

I also thought it was a strange choice by editors to use an image that did not include face tattoos, but the articles have been changed to use more up to date images anyway. -- 109.78.197.202 19:01, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, the license was checked correctly. To see whether a Flickr license has been changed, you can compare a reviewed file on Commons to the current stated license on Flickr. That is the entire point of license review. FlickreviewR 2 uses its own template, trusted human reveiwers use {{LicenseReview}}. Storkk (talk) 11:22, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Complicated but thanks for the explanation. -- 109.79.176.231 16:07, 15 May 2020 (UTC)