User talk:Anonymous101/Unfree

I believe the one image (Statler hotel) that has been restored should not be on Wikinews, but on Commons. I'm not sure of the precise age of the photograph, nor of the exact cut-off date prior to which things enter the public domain. But if we're talking about something from 1910 or earlier then the copyright claim asserted by the photo owner is invalid.

Per the listed source for the Statler hotel image, this likely appeared in a Buffalo newspaper sometime between 1901 and 1910. As that publication will have entered the public domain some research at the local library may well yield a copy without the caption that is unambiguously PD.

For others, I simply don't know. Use of a DPL followed by the deletion of the images means there is no easy way to see what's gone. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:13, 22 March 2008 (UTC)