Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Image:Einstein explains E=mc2.ogg

Einstein explains E=mc²

It is general knowledge that this formula is arguably the most important in physics, and I think an audio in which the man himself is explaining what it means is worthy of featured status.

• Nominate and support. Diego_pmc ^Talk 19:29, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Einstein explaining his simple yet elegant equation is a treasure. Truthanado (talk) 00:38, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
• Comment A 1948 copyright is claimed here: [1]. Can we confirm the copyright was, indeed, not renewed? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 03:01, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

• Can you give me an example of what I should find if the copyright wasn't renewed? I don't really know what I should be looking for. Diego_pmc ^Talk 08:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
• As I said, I do not know what I should find—or what I shouldn't—but all copyright claims I found for Atomic Physics are from 1948. Diego_pmc ^Talk 09:42, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I have to admit I'm not an expert on copyright, but I believe the Library of Congress holds all renewals. If they have anything from Atomic Physics up and say it's out of copyright, we can presume it is. But I'm afraid we do need to get copyright right... Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 12:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I couldn't find it on loc.gov, but here's the Google results. Diego_pmc ^Talk 17:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

After some more research, it looks like the film is British, but the Einstein clips are stock footage. However, if we can't get the copyright status sorted, I'm afraid it's going to have to be deleted as copyvio. This would be unfortunate, but what else could we do? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 04:09, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

That's too bad... Diego_pmc ^Talk 07:53, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• Conditional support: If the copyright was not renewed, otherwise delete. Could maybe do with some restoration too - I'll have a go now, and upload it if the copyright isn't an issue. Dendodge Talk^Contribs 10:49, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
  •  Done - how's this?
  • I'm still not entirely sure about the copyright, but they can both go the IfD together. Dendodge Talk^Contribs 11:17, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Any idea how we could sort out the copyright status? Diego_pmc ^Talk 12:05, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• When dealing with the copyright of this there are two things we need to think about, the words and the recording. The words could have been published and could have been renewed or not. The only renewal records online are from books and nothing else even though they could have been renewed. We need to know when and in what medium the words were first published. Zginder 2008-11-08T19:05Z (UTC)

Not promoted: File deleted. --Xclamation point 03:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)