User talk:Bsilby

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We're so glad you're here! Luksuh 05:43, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Palladium photo

Hi there Brent, good work on The Palladium Niteclub article. I just thought that I'd let you know that "Evidence: Will be provided on request" will not see the photo survive for very long on Wikipedia. You must provide a licence that meets the requirements, or else it will be deleted again. That evidence needs to come from the photographer; he needs to give the permission. Have a look at Wikipedia:Copyrights. Keep up your good work. Schwede 66 07:44, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I was wrong. It survived for seven years but now time's up. Be in touch if you need guidance. Schwede 66 16:31, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Stefan and Schwede66. Thanks for the update. I've looked into this and have a problem. The person who supplied the photo did not actually take it. The image was taken by someone at the Palladium way back in 1986. But it is not possible to determine who actually took the picture. It just somehow ended up in a collection, has been scanned, uploaded to many places online, and now the identity of the photographer is lost. I believe Nick Te Paa has the original but it was not actually his photo. Given that it was taken 35 years ago by an anonymous person, I wonder if the copyright issue still applies. Perhaps it can be considered public domain. I'd like to think this historic photo could remain here maybe with citation to an anonymous source. But if that is not permissible under wikipedia guidelines, I accept that it will need to be removed. Brent Silby (talk) 20:18, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Stefan2: No, that won’t work. Under NZ law, where the photographer is unknown, copyright expires after 50 years. Schwede 66 17:46, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. That's a shame but it seems there's no getting around it. I'll have to wait for 15 more years before I can put the photo back up. Then the photo will be 50 years old. I'll try to find another one with a known author in the meantime. Cheers Brent Silby (talk) 17:57, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note that Wikipedia is hosted in the United States, not in New Zealand. Under United States law, the copyright to a photograph by an anonymous photographer expires 95 years after the photo was first published (or 120 years after the photo was taken if not published within 25 years after it was taken). --Stefan2 (talk) 12:51, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but no. A moot point in this case but for photos taking by New Zealanders in New Zealand, the local copyright law applies. Schwede 66 19:00, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Interior of Christchurch Palladium Nightclub.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Interior of Christchurch Palladium Nightclub.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 09:37, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]