Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nina Simone

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 29 Jul 2020 at 15:08:43 (UTC)

Reason: Portrait of Nina Simone at the peak of her career in 1965. The photo shows her in Amsterdam during her European tour. A tighter crop of this portrait has been the lead image since 2013. I recently restored the photo and widened the crop.
Articles in which this image appears: Nina Simone
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: Photographer: Ron Kroon, source: National Archives of the Netherlands, restoration: Bammesk

Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 15:08, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 11:22, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:54, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 11:21, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I'd probably have cropped less, but it os a bit... busy in the cropped areas. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.3% of all FPs} 17:35, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I hear you. My first upload was wider. I trimmed the plant, to put more of the focus on her. Bammesk (talk) 01:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. Crop makes sense here, methinks. Wouldn't mind more headroom, but that seems the original amount. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.3% of all FPs} 02:41, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I prefer the tall thin crop of the nominated version to the conventional staid crop of the version it replaced. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:09, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Question Is this image not covered by copyright? Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:11, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Source says CC0. Why do you ask? Is it unclear? Bammesk (talk) 00:28, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I thought copyright rested with the creator Kroon, not an organisation that has a print/the original. And are you sure you can crop an artist's photo? But I'm no copyright expert. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:58, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The right place to ask is at Commons:Help desk. Bammesk (talk) 12:23, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please go ahead; I may be wrong, but Copyright law of the Netherlands seems to indicate that using/altering the image would infringe copyright. MER-C, David Eppstein, Adam Cuerden have I got this wrong? I don't want to oppose if I'm wrong, but don't want Wikipedia to infringe anyone's copyright. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:00, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The National Archive of the Netherlands says it's licenced CC0 by the copyright holder (whoever that might be). I see no reason to disbelieve them. CC0 allows cropping and any other use you might like. It is not the case that any national copyright law disallows cropping of copyrighted works. What they might disallow is cropping without permission of the copyright holder. But here we have been told, authoritatively, that this permission has been granted. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:06, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Charles, I don't have to ask it, YOU should ask it at Commons:Help desk. You are not a newbie, participation at en-Wiki requires competence, see WP:CIR and WP:DISRUPT. Your questions in this nom are disruptive. Your copyright question relates to 400,000 files in This category, if you aren't clear and want to take issue with the copyright, then fine, do it at Commons help desk. Your crop question relates to all files on Commons, same thing with that, take it to Commons help desk. This nomination is not a help page for newbies, which by the way you are not. Bammesk (talk) 22:11, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Let's try to be a bit more civil, shall we? I think, given it was uploaded here by the library. we can presume the rights were released, either to them or to public domain. While libraries aren't perfect (nothing is), we can generally trust them. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.3% of all FPs} 00:34, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Nina Simone 1965 - restoration1.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:56, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]