Providence RI flag images
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See
Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2020/10#Colorization for further reference, but I think the licensing of each of these files needs to be discussed.
The gif file of the flag was uploaded under a claim of "own work", but that seems highly unlikely given that it's supposed to be the official flag of
en:Providence, Rhode Island and the poor quality of the file. The same file can be seen
here on
en:Flags of the World so I think there's a good chance that is the source of the file. A claim of copyright is being made on the FOTW page, but I'm not whether that's valid and isn't just a case of
COM:LL. Regardless, I don't think this can really be kept per
COM:PCP unless it turns out the flag imagery is PD for some reason or another. Rhode Island doesn't appear to be a US state like California and Florida where official works by state or municipal government employees as part of their official duties are PB; so, I guess it depends upon the age of the flag imagery itself.
The second file has basically the same concerns except the part about FOTW. It does appear to be a user-created vector version derived from the the png version of the city seal; the "problem" then is whether the colorization of the seal makes this a
COM:DW. The png file of the seal is black-and-white and there's no indication as to whether a colorized version also dates back to 1878. The vector version probably has its own copyright per
COM:SVG#Copyright, but again I'm not sure how the colorization affects that. If the original seal imagery is PD regardless and the choice of colors used in the vector version were made by the uploader, then I guess the
{{Cc-by-sa-4.0}} the file was uploaded under covers everything. However, if the colorized version also came from somewhere else and the uploader just vectorized it, then that might be of a concern.
The last file is the png of the seal itself. It seems to be fine per
{{PD-US}}, but the
en:provenance is a bit unlcear because the url provided as a source is dead and there doesn't seem to be any archived version of it anywhere online. Since the two flag images seem to be primarily based on the seal's imagery, they almost certainly can't be kept if the seal file can't be kept. --
Marchjuly (
talk)
06:04, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Deleted: No one seems to care enough to participate in the discussion so I'm just going to delete per the request of the nominator. --Missvain (talk) 16:18, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
