User talk:Nsb3000

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Image copyright problem with Image:Ncfstud-fountain-63.jpg[edit]

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Nsb3000 -- I have information that will be useful to you for the reinstatement of this image. I happen to know who you are and that, per your work position on the college staff, the photographs you have taken as part of your duties qualify for public domain status and they are legal uploads to Wikipedia. The proper license for this and other photographs you upload to Wikipedia that are created through your work on staff is Template:PD-FLGov. You may insert -- PD-FLGov in double brackets {{ }} -- in the license window to have the template,

This work was created by a government unit (including state, county, and municipal government agencies) of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a "public record" that was not created by an agency which state law has allowed to claim copyright and is therefore in the public domain in the United States.

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appear in the correct place and, in the summary, identify it as a photograph in the 'public domain because it is a public document created by a staff member of a state institution in Florida. Any photograph in the archives of New College since its private status changed to being a state institution, is a Florida public document and not subject to copyright (unless it carries the copyright of a third party such as a donor to the college or the creator or author of the document who is not paid by the college for creating it). The Florida laws regarding public documents are very broad. They closely follow the status of those of the federal government and copyright may be claimed only for specific documents and materials stipulated by exemption by the legislature among a very well defined and limited list. Open meetings are required by state legislation.

That correction should be made to any photographs that you have uploaded here. I also uploaded one of your photographs, taken at the public meetings of the charrette for the campus master plan, that has been deleted in a similar manner. While debating the merits of that, I have discovered this license tag as the correct one to place on these photographs. I am in the midst of negotiating the reinstatement of the one I uploaded and you will remain identified as the creator when the license is corrected.

I am hoping that through my efforts to have my images reinstated, the benefit of that clarification will be extended to others so they are not required repeatedly to defend the legal use of Florida public documents here. ---- 83d40m (talk) 15:55, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Teelesquare.jpg[edit]

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Orphaned non-free media (File:New College of Florida logo.png)[edit]

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File permission problem with File:Palmcourt.jpg[edit]

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Possibly unfree File:Palmcourt.jpg[edit]

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Nomination of Rolland V. Heiser for deletion[edit]

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