Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 August 24

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the media below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was: Delete – Quadell ^(talk) 17:38, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Big Bird - Library of Congress, Living Legends, Award & Honors, 2000.jpg (delete | talk | history | links | logs) – uploaded by X4n6 (notify | contribs | uploads | upload log).

No evidence, that LoC is the author, as claimed. LoC actually notes under "Legal", that most content in their archives is still in the original authors' copyright. GermanJoe (talk) 11:51, 24 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep as a non-free fair-use file for articles it is being used in. Also put fair-use rationales for articles that use the picture. 和DITOREtails 20:20, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • In this case, another image File:Michelle_Obama_with_Big_Bird.jpg (White House PR photo) is available as free alternative (NFCC #1). GermanJoe (talk) 12:58, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The file is properly attributed to the Library of Congress, as the link to the LoC webpage indicates. Where there is a potential copyright issue, the Library of Congress includes that info and attributes the copyright source. In the absence of source attribution, LoC material, as a federal agency, is deemed safe for fair use. X4n6 (talk) 22:51, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - here is the actual statement of the LoC: [[3]]. They do not claim to own copyright to all their collections, nor do they claim to even know the copyrights of all their content. "As a publicly supported institution, the Library generally does not own rights in its collections." and "It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections.". The default for all media is "copyrighted", unless specifically noted (or an obvious government work or old work). GermanJoe (talk) 06:52, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the media's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.