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Original – Nina Simone in 1965
Reason
Portrait of
Nina Simone at the peak of her career in 1965. The photo shows her in Amsterdam during her European tour. A tighter crop of this portrait has been the lead image since 2013. I recently restored the photo and widened the crop.
Support I'd probably have cropped less, but it os a bit... busy in the cropped areas. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 17:35, 21 July 2020 (UTC)reply
I hear you. My first upload was wider. I trimmed the plant, to put more of the focus on her.
Bammesk (
talk) 01:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Yeah. Crop makes sense here, methinks. Wouldn't mind more headroom, but that seems the original amount. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 02:41, 23 July 2020 (UTC)reply
I prefer the tall thin crop of the nominated version to the conventional staid crop of the version it replaced. —
David Eppstein (
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Question Is this image not covered by copyright?
Charlesjsharp (
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Source says CC0. Why do you ask? Is it unclear?
Bammesk (
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I thought copyright rested with the creator Kroon, not an organisation that has a print/the original. And are you sure you can crop an artist's photo? But I'm no copyright expert.
Charlesjsharp (
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Please go ahead; I may be wrong, but
Copyright law of the Netherlands seems to indicate that using/altering the image would infringe copyright.
MER-C,
David Eppstein,
Adam Cuerden have I got this wrong? I don't want to oppose if I'm wrong, but don't want Wikipedia to infringe anyone's copyright.
Charlesjsharp (
talk) 21:00, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
The National Archive of the Netherlands says it's licenced CC0 by the copyright holder (whoever that might be). I see no reason to disbelieve them. CC0 allows cropping and any other use you might like. It is not the case that any national copyright law disallows cropping of copyrighted works. What they might disallow is cropping without permission of the copyright holder. But here we have been told, authoritatively, that this permission has been granted. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 21:06, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Charles, I don't have to ask it, YOU should ask it at
Commons:Help desk. You are not a
newbie, participation at en-Wiki requires competence, see
WP:CIR and
WP:DISRUPT. Your questions in this nom are disruptive. Your copyright question relates to 400,000 files in
This category, if you aren't clear and want to take issue with the copyright, then fine, do it at Commons help desk. Your crop question relates to all files on Commons, same thing with that, take it to Commons help desk. This nomination is not a help page for newbies, which by the way you are not.
Bammesk (
talk) 22:11, 25 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Let's try to be a bit more civil, shall we? I think, given it was uploaded here by the library. we can presume the rights were released, either to them or to public domain. While libraries aren't perfect (nothing is), we can generally trust them. Adam Cuerden(
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FPs 00:34, 26 July 2020 (UTC)reply