Commons:Deletion requests/File:Venus Mariner 10.jpg

This file was initially tagged by Ww2censor as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: the NASA source webpage specifically attributes the image to "© 2005 Mattias Malmer as NASA do for images that are not their own. — Huntster (t @ c) 01:21, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment. This is not an obvious copyright violation case, so I have converted the speedy to a DR. I do not believe this would be a copyright violation as (I believe) only insignificant image processing was performed by Mattias Malmer to make the image "prettier" than the original Mariner 10 image. Such work would not confer a new copyright, and the original PD-USGov-NASA license tag would suffice. — Huntster (t @ c) 01:31, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete: As I had stated in the "copyvio" speedy this is a copyright image. NASA does not normally attribute its own images but does attribute those that are not its own images. This NASA media usage webpage specifically states NASA occasionally uses copyrighted material by permission on its website. Those images will be marked copyright with the name of the copyright holder. NASA's use does not convey any rights to others to use the same material. Those wishing to use copyrighted material must contact the copyright holder directly. That statement is clear enough for me. Ww2censor (talk) 10:40, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Except that this is an image taken by Mariner 10, a NASA mission, and simply modified by this individual. I do not believe that such changes would be enough to warrant a new copyright. — Huntster (t @ c) 03:32, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That is your point but then why do some images get attributed like this image: NASA/Mattias Malmer? Ww2censor (talk) 11:00, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment: Since it was originally the work of NASA, making it public domain, shouldn't the work, not matter how modified by a third party, stay in the public domain, legally speaking under US copyright law? User:PhilipTerryGraham 01:35, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So all you need to do is provide a link to an original NASA produced image and we can dismiss this nomination but I can't find one. Can you? Ww2censor (talk) 10:51, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

•  Delete Derivative files of public domain files can be copyrighted if the additional work is sufficiently involved and detailed to merit recognition as a substantial change. It doesn't apply to trivial alterations of color that can be done in moments, but if the work involves intense processing that creates a file substantially different from the original then a new work is created. DrKay (talk) 08:35, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: Alan ^(talk) 14:59, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]