User talk:Empire of War

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File tagging File:Sketch of Great Fire of Brisbane.jpg

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—LX (talk, contribs) 07:55, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

You earmarked the picture I uploaded for deletion, "Sketch Of The Great Fire of Brisbane" however, this image was created in 1865, as such it should be free to publish due to age.

The second photo, I did not mean to publish, I was working on it but stopped halfway through when I realised I needed a written confirmation for use. I have permission to use this image, but I am yet to send the approval through to Permissions-commons, as such it should be deleted until it is approved. Thankyou.--Empire of War (talk) 08:19, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Well, on the file description page for File:Sketch of Great Fire of Brisbane.jpg, you claimed that it was created in 2011 and that rather than the copyright having expired, the copyright holder had released it using this specific waiver. If that's not the case, you should correct the date and select a more appropriate PD tag from Commons:Copyright tags. Commons:Copyright rules by territory#Australia should provide additional guidance. —LX (talk, contribs) 11:13, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

I think that was the date when Trove published it, so I just used that date. But the image was created in 1865, so is it safe to use?--Empire of War (talk) 11:02, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

It seems likely that it's in the public domain, but an image created in 1865 is not necessarily in the public domain if it remained unpublished for a long time or if its author died less than 70 years ago (which is unlikely but not at all biologically impossible). Again, you'll need to select a more appropriate PD tag and possibly additional source information to back it up. For example, I can't find any mention of 1865 on the current source page. —LX (talk, contribs) 13:42, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

• User:LX, you wrote: "...an image created in 1865 is not necessarily in the public domain ... if its author died less than 70 years ago (which is unlikely but not at all biologically impossible)."

Assuming the photographer was 20 years old when a photo dating back to 1865 was taken they would have had to live to have been 100 years old. Do you want to defend the rights of an anonymous photographer over such a vanishingly small possibility? Geo Swan (talk) 02:03, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

It's too big a possibility to throw caution to the wind, and it grows bigger pretty quickly for each year you shave off your initial assumption. But the bigger risk is probably that it may have remained unpublished for a long time. Also, if I'm not mistaken, we're talking about a sketch created after the depicted event, not a photograph, so it could even have been created at a much later date. As far as I recall, there was never any information to back up the supposed creation date, much less a first publication date. —LX (talk, contribs) 05:54, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

File tagging File:Hippocrates statue in Brisbane.png

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—LX (talk, contribs) 07:56, 5 August 2014 (UTC)