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Copyright status: File:Trade card from 1700s. Showing the corner of Rutland Square (modern Parnell Square) and Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), Dublin.jpg

Copyright status: File:Trade card from 1700s. Showing the corner of Rutland Square (modern Parnell Square) and Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), Dublin.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Trade card from 1700s. Showing the corner of Rutland Square (modern Parnell Square) and Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), Dublin.jpg. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear.

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Yours sincerely, — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 04:32, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Red-tailed hawk. The document is a scan of a card from the 1700s. I had guessed it was out of copyright by now. Regards, Ridiculopathy (talk) 23:00, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I've added a licensing tag to the page. Thank you for alerting me to this. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 02:32, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Burning of the British Embassy

Hello - regarding this picture, may I ask if you took the photograph yourself? Regards --Kwekubo (talk) 08:52, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kwekubo. My father did. Ridiculopathy (talk) 15:21, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kwekubo. May I ask why? Ridiculopathy (talk) 13:13, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You credited it as your own work, not that of your father - and I noticed you've also credited some pictures from the 1950s as your own work. I thought it extremely unlikely that someone old enough to take such photographs 70 years ago would have published them on the Internet for the first time in 2024. I need to gently point out that scanning an image does not make it your "own work". If you have inherited these pictures from your father, you should credit him as the author on each file page, and use different copyright tags indicating that the copyright has transferred to you through inheritance - see Commons:Transfer of copyright. --Kwekubo (talk) 19:04, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I see. I didn't know there was a way to credit my father, but for all intents and purposes I'm quite certain he's not going to sue me for copyright infringement. If I upload any more of his pics in future, I'll do as you say (I would imagine the process is not straightforward or easy to find though - hence why I didn't do it in the first place). In the meantime, the article about the British Embassy finally got a picture of the event, and it's now in the public domain for people to use instead of sitting in a box under my dad's bed. I think that's a win. Ridiculopathy (talk) 03:35, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The process is very straightforward: mention that your father took the pictures, and edit the page to have the correct copyright tag by adding this text: {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}} (This is from the page I linked to above about transfer of copyright.) Thank you contributing - my concern is that where people upload images without permission, it means that others with legitimate content may not realise there is a gap, and they may end up not contributing valid content to Commons/Wikimedia that would otherwise have been shared with the world. Kwekubo (talk) 06:03, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info about the copyright tag. I don't fully understand the last sentence you wrote though - "Thank you contributing - my concern is that where people upload images without permission, it means that others with legitimate content may not realise there is a gap, and they may end up not contributing valid content to Commons/Wikimedia that would otherwise have been shared with the world." Could you explain that a bit more? I'm new to all this. Ridiculopathy (talk) 13:48, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright status: File:Trade card from 1700s. Showing the corner of Rutland Square (modern Parnell Square) and Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), Dublin.jpg

Burning of the British Embassy

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