Commons:Village pump/Archive/2025/12

Freedom of panorama, Norway

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Norway#Freedom_of_panorama I believe this is wrong. According to the Norwegian Copyright Act (Åndsverkloven) § 23 (1), works of art that are permanently placed in or at a public space may be freely depicted, unless to be used commercially. This means that photographing and publishing such images is permitted without obtaining permission from the rights holder. Source: Åndsverkloven (Copyright Act) § 23 (1).

Because of how this has been interpreted, I've noticed that photos of a few public artworks/statues have been unnecessarily deleted. Birdesigns (talk) 13:34, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

"unless to be used commercially" exactly means that we can not host the images. Ymblanter (talk) 14:51, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Per Commons:Licensing: Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that are not subject to copyright restrictions which would prevent them being used by anyone, anytime, for any purpose. --Rosenzweig τ 15:04, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I’m commenting on my own post to point out that Norwegian law / the Copyright Act distinguishes between commercial use (press, magazines, merchandise) – which is allowed – and advertising – which is not. I was not aware (as I should have been) that Commons doesn't make this exception/distinction. Birdesigns (talk) 17:18, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Birdesigns: Can you cite something that substantiates that distinction?

I'm not sure where that distinction, if valid, leaves us. We've accepted the equivalent for pictures in the U.S. as a personality rights issue (hence non-copyright); however, this seems to be more of a true copyright matter than that. - Jmabel ! talk 00:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Files with no machine-readable source

I cannot see a difference in the source data between File:David Ogilvie 23.jpg and File:David Ogilvie 24.jpg. Yet, the #24 file pulls through a source in the information template, whilst the #23 file does not. Hence, the #23 file gets put into the Files with no machine-readable source category. Can anyone work out what's going on, please? Schwede66 22:57, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

@Schwede66: The one that works uses described at URL (P973) where the one that does not uses work available at URL (P953). - Jmabel ! talk 00:25, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting the difference, Jmabel. I thought I was going mad. Schwede66 00:35, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:39, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Do we have a category for text files that need OCR run on them?

Do we have a category for text files that need OCR run on them? RAN (talk) 23:17, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): Yes, Category:Needing transcription is that, I think. It's added with {{Transcribe here}}. Sam Wilson 23:27, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:38, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Otto Warmbier is missing

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. ReneeWrites (talk) 01:12, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Category:Arrest and death of Otto Warmbier is empty. I assume, it contained one or more now deleted files. But if empty, it cannot fulfull its purpose --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 19:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

see Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Arrest and death of Otto Warmbier. So the cat should be deleted, IMO --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 19:07, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Why did you make a thread about this? Prototyperspective (talk) 20:37, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @PantheraLeo1359531, in that case it would be best to create a deletion request for it at Commons:Deletion requests Commons:Categories for discussion :-) --SimmeD (talk) 00:00, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

No, empty categories can just be speedied. - Jmabel ! talk 00:47, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Ah, Well, there you got it :-) —SimmeD (talk) 04:32, 9 December 2025 (UTC)