User talk:Clindberg

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Hi Carl, Could you please add your opinion in this DR? My question is precisely, does the free license of the source allows to make derivative works? Or are these characters protected in any case? Yann (talk) 11:49, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Crown copyright question

Hi Carl. Would you mind taking a look at COM:VPC#Crown copyright and ID cards/passports? There's also some discussion about these files on the uploader's user talk page. I'm not well versed in Crown Copyright and how it's applied, but it does seem (at least to me) that it might not cover all of some of these files. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:57, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Video of Harris speaking at a rally

I have a video of w:Kamala Harris speaking at a rally.
At the rally she's not acting in her role of Vice President, so I'm guessing the words of the speech are copyrighted and not a work of the federal US government? Same question about w:Tim Walz. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 09:56, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Any pre-written text of the speech, correct -- see meta:Copyright of Political Speeches. Nothing about that situation is PD-USGov. If it is your own video, it gets into significant fair use questions. You definitely can't extract the text of the speech and use that separately, but most usages of the video would likely be OK. Whether that qualifies for "free" for Commons may be a cloudier question. For someone else's video, you'd have to get permission for the video's copyright first, then face the same questions on the contained content. Carl Lindberg (talk) 22:03, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I suspected that would be the case but was hoping I overlooked something. Speeches like that are most probably fully pre-written. Too bad. I was there, I recorded the speeches of Tim Walz and Kamala Harris at the Thomas & Mack center in LV in full. In hindsight there was no need as I can't upload it with a free license anyway. I guess I could upload the video without the audio, but the quality isn't that great so not really worth it without the audio. (shot on an iPhone from probably >100 yards away) Thanks for the info!
I guess with Donald Trump it might be different as he switches subject mid-sentence all the time, that's unlikely to be pre-written. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 22:33, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Uploading to en-wiki may be OK, if the speech is relevant to the article. The question does get arguable for Commons, if the usage inside the video is inherently fair use no matter how the video itself is used. There are always difficult gray areas with this stuff, and probably differing opinions. It may not be terribly different where we have permission for a particular photo of a statue -- does not give you rights to use the statue itself separately, but just that photo (as a photo). But it would involve fair use in one manner or another. Carl Lindberg (talk) 22:51, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at COM:VPC#Mascot imagery copyright query

 You are invited to join the discussion at COM:VPC#Mascot imagery copyright query. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:54, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Clindberg. Any opinions you have on this would be appreciated. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:55, 15 August 2024 (UTC)