Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Binksternet

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"Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share. ♡ Nina Paley 2018" is not a sufficient permission for Commons. Written one must be sent via COM:OTRS.

Patrick Rogel (talk) 12:00, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First, File:Léon Benett - illustration de L'Île à hélice - 1895.jpg was published in 1895, in a book by Jules Verne, the book titled L'Île à hélice (Propeller Island, or The Self-propelled Island). The illustrator Léon Benett died in 1917, more than a hundred years ago. Anything published by Léon Benett is now in the public domain because of its age. This image is very different from the others, and obviously public domain.

All of the other images are from Nina Paley who is famously an advocate for free culture, an activist against copyright. OTRS is not needed. She is the artist-in-residence at https://questioncopyright.org ... She gave the TEDx Talk "Copyright is Brain Damage". An article about Paley in Epoch Times presents her as a copyleft activist; she's quoted saying, "I fundamentally believe you cannot own art and treat it as property." Every image created by her has been given freely to public domain.

Paley herself is very much aware that the images are on Wikipedia. She blogged about the Seder-Masochism article at http://blog.ninapaley.com/2018/09/10/seder-masochism-wikipedia-article/ , categorizing it as "awesome".

Aside from that, the Nina Paley images are from the press kit at http://sedermasochism.com/press-kit/ , under the subheading http://sedermasochism.com/stills/ or http://sedermasochism.com/poster/ ... All of the press kit images are published for free redistribution.

None of the images at http://sedermasochism.com contain a copyright notice: they have all been published without a copyright notice.

In 2010, Paley wrote at http://copyheart.org/ "♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share." She describes this as her signal, her mark, that the work is public domain. At Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 3, 2018, created by User:Kalki, the quote is presented, "♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy & share." Paley repeats that statement at sedermasochism.com. For Paley, that statement suffices tell the reader that the work is public domain. Binksternet (talk) 19:27, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I just fixed a link to Wikiquote in the above statement, and agree that Paley rejects copyright restrictions and has clearly presented this material as being in the public domain; additionally in 2009 she declared "Everything that I do now is totally free", and in 2015 she stated : "I am not a copyright reformer. I am a copyright abolitionist." ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:07, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of searching the web for her quotes perhaps it'll be simpler to ask her to send a permission via OTRS, like everybody else... Please note @Binksternet: that it's your task to do so BEFORE upload. --Patrick Rogel (talk) 10:50, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I hear what you are saying. I did not have to "search" for her web quotes because I was already familiar with her stance on copyright, and I already knew that she had established "♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share." as her personal stamp of CC-0, public domain material. I already knew that the film Seder-Masochism website contained the copyheart statement, establishing it as public domain. Which means that I knew ahead of time that it was not necessary to have Paley deal with OTRS. A question: what is different about this image which is also from Paley's work on the film, and may be seen incorporated into the film? You didn't nominate it for deletion. Binksternet (talk) 20:46, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The creator Nina Paley has given these images into the public domain by way of her copyheart statement reproduced at the film's website on the credits page. Looks like we're done here. No need for OTRS. Binksternet (talk) 02:10, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep With respect to searching out copyright online, we do a lot of that. Often we find (C) statement on a page and that is sufficient to nominate it for deletion. Other situations establish the opposite - information is free to use and labeled free to copy. Some sites, including Flickr, allow for image by image copyright statements. I don't think we need OTRS for this group when copyright is so clearly established as free to copy and share, else we'd have to OTRS every single Flickr image that passes Flickr review!

Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:30, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: COM:L requires that media be "explicitly freely licensed," and that the "license must meet the following conditions" (bold in original), which include republication, derivative works, and commercial use. "Copying is an act of love. Please copy & share" is not an explicit license and does not address, at least, derivatives. Further, free is not necessarily the same as PD, the bogus CC-zero license applied to these files (i.e., even if we accept the "copyheart"--which, admits is not legally binding, which a real license would be--that is not the same as the CC-zero.) "Paley herself is very much aware that the images are on Wikipedia" is not an argument per COM:PRP#3. Paley is invited to provide appropriate permission using the process at COM:OTRS. File:Léon Benett - illustration de L'Île à hélice - 1895.jpg kept as PD. --Эlcobbola _talk 20:56, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Restored. See UnDR of today's date. Film's web site now has an explicit CC-0 license. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 13:37, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]