User talk:Hammon27~commonswiki
Waiting for a response on the US Army Institute of Heraldry
US Army Institute of Heraldry
[edit]I'm trying to compile galleries of US Military Coats of Arms. I noticed a moment ago that you had applied a Request for Deletion on a number of images uploaded from the US Army Institute of Heraldry with the comment that "Images are not free enough" (I think the request has since been removed, since I can't find it anymore, so forgive me if I am misremembering). I was wondering why you decided to have these images deleted, and what you meant by "not free enough." (and now I'm registered on the Commons) v/r, Hammon27 21:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for my ignorance; the computer I was on wouldn't even let me go to the Commons website. I have checked out your posts on the Commons:Deletion requests page and I'm looking over a conversation on this very topic from 2005. It can be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Archive/2005/11#Template:PD-USGov-Military-Army-USAIOH
The USAIOH images are not restricted to non-commercial use. They have a qualification on commercial use, which is not the same thing. v/r, Hammon27 22:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
According to the first footnote on the basic Commons:Licensing page, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#_note-0 , [the use of free content by anyone, for any purpose] "This may be regulated by geographical, trademark, or other laws unrelated to copyrights, which Wikimedia Commons can not account for. Wikimedia Commons tries to ensure that any such restrictions are mentioned on the image description page, but it is the responsibility of the user to ensure that the use of the media does not violate any applicable law. In particular, copyrights of certain material may have expired in one country, while still being applicable in another country. Furthermore, many commons licences, such as GFDL and Creative Commons Share-Alike, require that any derivatory work must be released under the same license conditions."
The Institute of Heraldry is mentioned on this page as well. Is this page being vandalized by pro-insignia forces? Is there a more basic, more canon, document that spells out what the Wikimedia Commons copyright policy actually is, which would support your efforts to rip all insignia off of Wikipedia? If so, that makes me very sad, and I would like to read it. Thank you for your assistance. v/r, Hammon27 22:43, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
- The template suggests that the image can only be used "with permission". Thats a problem. Free licenses are required to be used freely without permission. All images on commons should allow derivative works, comercialusage and should not have permission restrictions.
- Also the template seems to be redundant, why not simply use {{PD-USgov}}? (Of course provided images are in PD)
- On wikipedia commons we often request deletion if we feel there are problems with their copyright claim of a copyright tag or if the tag is redundant. My nomination only raises my reservations addressing both of these issues. Deletion review is a discussion, not a vote.
- --Cat out 00:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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