Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with deepcat:"American Innovation $1 Coin Program"

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Files found with Special:Search/deepcat:"American Innovation $1 Coin Program"

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All American Innovation coins released between 2018 and 2021, inclusive, with the exception of Maryland's, were designed by participants in the Artistic Infusion Program. For reasons explained at Commons:Determining if U.S. coins are free to use, coins designed by Artistic Infusion Program contractors are not freely usable. Please see User:Mysterymanblue/U.S._Coins_with_known_copyright_statuses#American_Innovation_dollar_coins for evidence to support this classification.

 Mysterymanblue  23:04, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep all No indication that the US Mint is claiming copyright on these coins or that these images may not be used here. These must not be deleted without appropriate reuploading first. Reywas92 (talk) 04:18, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all per Reywas92. Removing images so valuable to a major coinage article and related pages seems to unnecessarily undermine the purpose of Wikipedia. If someone official was going to complain that these are being used they would have done so a long time ago. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:55, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep all - Reywas92 and Randy Kryn make a valid point. I think all of Mysterymanblue's recent deletion nominations of US coins should be reviewed based on this. - ZLEA T\C 03:34, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Wikimedia Commons does not allow content that is not freely usable. The utility of a work is not a valid reason to keep it on Wikimedia Commons if it is a copyright violation. The fact that the U.S. mint has not written "COPYRIGHT U.S. MINT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" on its coins does not mean that they are freely usable. Per COM:PRP, "The copyright owner will not mind" is not a valid reason to keep a non-free work on Commons. There is no mechanism in current U.S. law under which a failure to actively claim a copyright will cause a copyright holder to lose copyright in that work.
Under 17 U.S. Code § 105(a), works of the United States government are generally in the public domain; a work of the United States government is defined by 17 U.S. Code § 101 as "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties". This law is the reason that most works created for the federal government are in the public domain; you can see this clause in action at {{PD-USGov}}, for example. Absent from this law is an automatic mechanism that causes works of federal government contractors to enter the public domain. In fact, "the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise." (17 U.S. Code § 105(a)). The contract signed by AIP participants describes them as "contractors" and forces each of them to "[assign] all rights, title and interest to the United States Mint in any and all Work Product produced or created under this contract and all drafts thereof, including all worldwide copyright ownership rights in such Work Product." The mint absolutely owns the copyright over these works, and we have no reason to believe that it has released them under a free license.  Mysterymanblue  05:00, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Have copy-pasted the three replies above to that discussion. Please bring back any images which have been deleted because of these discussions, because of this Commons is doing damage or plans to seriously damage many popular Wikipedia pages. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:45, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: This DR had only 6 blue links today, most images were deleted in other DR. Per nomination including the essay Commons:Determining if U.S. coins are free to use. The terms of use on the website of the US Mint state ‘’Coin and medal designs may be based on sources that are copyrighted and licensed to the United States Mint or otherwise used with permission. In some cases, such designs may themselves be covered by third-party copyrights assigned to the United States Mint. Numismatic designs may also contain third parties’ other proprietary material, trademarks, or logos licensed or provided to the United States Mint for limited purposes. Reuse of such designs may require permission of the rights owner.’’ There is a possibility these coins are copyrighted. Consequently, the uploader – or any other Commons user - has to show per COM:EVID that the image can be used with an acceptable licence. This has imho not been done in this case. So therefore these images must be deleted. --Ellywa (talk) 22:31, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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