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Seven 2006/2007 discussions organized as subpages, ignoringincl. comments added in 2014:

• ADRM
• Review of license templates
• U.S. patents
• Ecoport copyleft
• Museums Bilder (in German)
• Explaining why Derivative Work and Commercial Use must be allowed
• Which countries' copyright laws determine copyright status?

Open Government Licence?

I recently uploaded File:Peter II death letter.jpg, which was tagged as having insufficient information as to copyright. The image is covered by the Open Government Licence (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/), which as far as I can tell meets all of our requirements. How do I proceed here? RoySmith (talk) 14:23, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

 Done License was fixed by AntiCompositeNumber. Yann (talk) 11:24, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

PD-simple but probably not OK

I have uploaded two logos of Premio Campiello; they are extremely simple SVG squares but the Logo Premio Campiello.png (with text logo) is considered not free. Should I delete them?

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-- Carnby (talk) 11:19, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Old orphan works

The recently added section Commons:Licensing#Old orphan works fails to define "orphan works," nor does it link to any such definition. Pinging @Yann. - Jmabel ! talk 14:40, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

I don't know where discussion should be centalized, but I chose to post a comment in response to notice at Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Old_orphan_works —RP88 (talk) 14:46, 22 August 2023 (UTC).

I just came here to write that too. I've continued at COM:VPC. --Rosenzweig τ 17:36, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Orphan work is very well defined in Wikipedia. I added a link. Yann (talk) 19:26, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

See the COM:VPC discussion for why I think this does goes against Wikimedia Commons' principle of only accepting free content. --Rosenzweig τ 19:58, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

There is no need to duplicate the discussion, so I answered on COM:VPC. Yann (talk) 21:07, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Algerian laws

Hi y'all,

For the record, I started a discussion about to the PD-Algeria templates here Commons talk:Copyright rules by territory/Algeria. All help and advice is welcome there.

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 13:56, 9 September 2023 (UTC)