User talk:JWilz12345

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Mayors of Dingle, Iloilo

Hi, Could you please help fix some licenses for pictures of the mayors of en:Dingle, Iloilo? These may be OK with {{PD-Philippines}} and {{PD-1996}}, but at least an approximate date is needed. The author mentioned is also probably wrong. Thanks for your help, Yann (talk) 13:30, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

@Yann hello. Sorry for late reply. I am too hesitant to review majority of the old images of the Philippines, as these may have been published later than their alleged creation dates. I also don't have means to access sufficient resources to review very old PH photos (like reliable archives, publicly-accessible and comprehensive online registry of all registered works before 2021, et cetera). I suggest contacting other Pinoy / PH-based users for old PH photos cases. Regards, JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 05:41, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

We usually assume that old pictures were published at the time of creation unless there is evidence otherwise. But never mind, I have asked on COM:VPC. Yann (talk) 07:48, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

• File:Photograph of Don Cipriano J. Montero, Mayor of Dingle (1928-1931).jpg
• File:Photograph of Don Julio Muyco y Dayot, Dingle Mayor (1909–1910, 1919–1922, 1931–1934, 1938–1945).jpg
• File:Photograph of Don Luís Dayot y Roces, Dingle Mayor (1925-1928).jpg
• File:Photograph of Don Vicente D. Dayot, Dingle Mayor (1898, 1916-1919).jpg
• File:Noé D. Dayot.jpg

File:Camp Crame.jpg

File:Camp Crame.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

A1Cafel (talk) 10:24, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

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Hi. Since your someone who regularly researches FOP can you do me a favor and tell me what you think about the wording in Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Bangladesh#Freedom of panorama? Maybe it's just me, but I can't make heads or tails out of it for some reason or if 2d artwork qualifies for FOP there. I assume not since the guideline says Bangladeshi law is modelled on the UK and 2D "graphic works" aren't covered by FOP there but it's not really clear from the wording of the section if that's the case or not. Thanks. Adamant1 (talk) 12:05, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

@Adamant1 the old Bangladeshi law is based upon the British copyright model, and its FoP had resemblance to the British FoP. However this is moot, considering that Bangladesh passed a new copyright law in 2023 (which I posted on "Village Pump/Copyright"). This new law seems concerning as it did away with British-inspired fair dealing exceptions (including FoP), and replaced those with a very limited list of exceptions based on the U.S. fair use model, and we all know that any copyright law that wants to follow U.S. copyright model does not have any FoP of any sort, like the one of Sri Lanka. Because only Bengali text exists (no reliable English translation text is available online, be it official or unofficial), I cannot check if FoP still exists in the 2023 copyright law of Bangladesh. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 12:11, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Hhhhmm, makes sense. It's unfortunate there's no English translation of the new law since people are uploading a ton of 2D artwork in the meantime. I don't think we should just allow people upload whatever images they want to because there's no English translation of the law. But then I don't want to do mass DRs for artwork that might be PD either. So I'm not really sure what to do about it. --Adamant1 (talk) 23:38, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

@Adamant1 I'd rather wait for an English translation (even unofficial) rather than making drastic revisions to COM:CRT/Bangladesh page. It must also be determined if the more restrictive law is retroactive or not. I already pinged few Bengali users in the VPC thread for them to read and translate the Bengali text for us (but it seems they are busy, perhaps[?]). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 23:41, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps you may want to comment on the VPC thread concerning Bangladesh. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 23:45, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Just to be clear I'm not planning on doing anything about it at this point. It would suck for people to upload images of a bunch of artwork from there if it turns out that it's not covered by FOP though. So hopefully someone who speaks the language can translate the law into English at some point. Otherwise the status in the guideline should just be changed to "unknown." Or at least clarified somehow. I'm not going to nominate anything for deletion or change the guideline for now though. --Adamant1 (talk) 01:12, 15 September 2024 (UTC)