First to address Anynobody last comment. We have no basis for assuming the site used the photos of Rachel Corrie without permission. The Iranian site http://www.sajed.ir/en/ does say "GFDL" in their copyright notice. I am not a lawyer, so I can't say to what extent we can rely on license assertions from another web site. That said, I suggest it would be preferable to use a photo with a better provenance and moot this discussion. If Farmanesh agrees, I would suggest he upload the image with the sign under a new name, perhaps IA655victim, or the person's name. Then we can delete this image without prejudice under G7--Author's request. The new image description should include a translation of the sign and a mention of the original language (Persian I assume). For license, it might say that the photo is a work of the Iranian broadcasting and the U.S. does not have copyright relations with Iran. It might also mention that the source site asserts a GFDL license. Is this generally acceptable?--agr (talk) 12:28, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree we should look for a compromise. Another possibility is this image from video shown on TV at the time and referred to in the press ("Iranian television broadcast scenes of bodies floating amid scattered debris" , "the videotape of bodies floating amid the wreckage was a horrifying reminder"). It illustrates the horror of the incident without a close-up of anyone, or blood. The image was also likely taken by an Iranian govt employee on the rescue, released to the media. An historic-image fair use argument can be made for this image regardless of copyright issues. Rwendland (talk) 12:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree with agr. Just as Alborz originally uploaded the main image, I will let him some time to both give us his feedback and if he wants upload the image. He would be around soon I hope.Farmanesh (talk) 13:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
agr, We have no basis for assuming the site used the photos of Rachel Corrie without permission. We actually do and it's related to what you said later: The Iranian site http://www.sajed.ir/en/ does say "GFDL" in their copyright notice. Here's a {{GFDL}} image, and its GNU Free Documentation License, note the terms are expressly discussed along with the author. Whenever someone applies this stamp to an image it means that they should be able to link to the actual license for that image like the one in the last link. This is not that information, it just says the uploader, Alborz, knows where to find it:
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What does this have to do with the Corrie pics? If you look they too are being released by sajed.ir under a GFDL, the problem is they aren't sajed's images to release under GFDL (remember the author does that, and in this case it was
International Solidarity Movement who took the picture.Sajed.ir doesn't mention whether it's been licensed to them or not and in fact doesn't even mention the owner, ISM.
- The following discussion is out of chronological order. Participation is welcome by anyone wishing to comment. This box is simply for organization.
- Again, you have no basis for assuming that sajed acted without ISM's permission. --agr (talk) 08:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- agr we do actually (more on that at the end), but my point is that this photo is not theirs to license under the {{GFDL}}. If we assume they do have permission, that doesn't give them the right to re-release the same image under a new license. (It's like borrowing a friend's car, then selling it, only the owner can sell their car just the same as only the author can license an image.)
Here's how we know they don't have express permission from the ISM, they don't say so. They don't even mention the ISM or the fact that they're ISM images, I'm not saying we have to assume that all websites are fudging copyrights, for example here an image caption on another site reads Figure 5. Final Run, used with permission of the artist. Since they have a good record of not releasing other's images as their own we can assume that the artist really did give permission. Whereas sajed has proven to be less than reliable in several ways and says nothing about permission or even who owns the photos. Anynobody 06:40, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Out of chronological order discussion thread ends here.
Rwendland, Farmanesh, and agr I assume you mean an image to replace this one on Iran Air Flight 655? Proposing a substitute for an article's image is something you'd want to do on that article's talk page Talk:Iran Air Flight 655. Anynobody 02:54, 13 March 2008
- I am proposing a compromise where the image so hotly debated here would be voluntarily withdrawn in favor of a new image that has a better provenance. This is the place to discuss whether this image belongs on Wikipedia. If we can get to a consensus that's is a good thing. What goes in the IA655 article is a separate matter.--agr (talk) 08:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, you are strictly right that a substitute image discussion should be on the talk page - I floated this idea over a month ago at Talk:Iran_Air_Flight_655#Possible_alternative. It didn't gain general support then, but I'm hoping after all this inconclusive discussion here it might be looked on more favourably now as a reasonable compromise? Rwendland (talk) 11:13, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Here's my compromise. Delete this image immediately and instead find a reliably sourced image of Iranian family members protesting the shootdown or something like that. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Rwendland I stand by what I said before about another image from the same site (it'd be a double standard to cite copyright issues as the reason to delete this image yet accept another with the same "baggage".) I can certainly go for something along the lines of what WhisperToMe proposed. Anynobody 06:10, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- WhisperToMe, when you say "Other people are saying that the website is not trustworthy", do you consider that is just a POV and some others have other POV and have brought reasons for it? I would be happy to read your reasoning to the answers we have provided all above on the matter and the 'clarifications' we have made. Farmanesh (talk) 19:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't see it as a Wikipedia:POV - I see it as a judgment of whether a source is reliable. How is that site a government site? How do we know that the girl is really an IR655 girl? WhisperToMe (talk) 20:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Lets focus our discussion on one page, I propose finishing our talk on Article's talk page. Please see my answer to your comments there. Farmanesh (talk) 22:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Lawrence, this image isn't gonna last on the commons, someone's already nominated it for deletion there. They are way stricter about accepting only verified non-free content.
- Farmanesh you're still missing the point about this discussion. It's not about using the image in the article, it's about keeping it on wikipedia here. Whether it's deleted or not doesn't dictate it must be used in the article, it's why I've been making WP:NPOV arguments there and copyright points here. Anynobody 05:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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