Category talk:Colorized by Julius Jääskeläinen
I found some good old colorized photos att Flickr with the license CC BY so I used Flickr2Commons for uploading them. I now see that some of them can be in copyright or that the history of origin is not declared. I think there can be some problems here. How can this be solved in the best way? VisbyStar (talk) 17:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
You would need to find the original for each photo and verify that (&document) that it is also freely licensed. Many of the photos from World War II, for example, were created by US military staff. Those are Public Domain per Template:PD-USGov-Military.
I am slightly annoyed at the person creating these colorization for not attributing the sources. For PD work, that may not be required. But I would consider it common curtesy, and it would also help in this matter. This is aggravated by their insistence to claim copyright for themselves, and, in some cases, even affix their watermark. That's somewhat bold, considering the original photographers liberated Auschwitz, but it's Photoshop Julius claiming credit now. So you might want to at least give equal credit to the original creator. The colorization also isn't neccessarily the most important aspect of these photos. The descriptions, for example, should for the most part be the same as they would be for the b/w original, with colorization maybe included in parenthesis.
Once you have found the original and verified that it's freely usable, you may want to upload those as well. --Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 03:14, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Comment This is outside the scope of a CfD, but a colorized image is a derivative work and as such copyright is held by the author of the derivative (the 'colorizer'). However, copyright to the original remains intact as well, and as such both the original work as well as the colorized work would need valid license or public domain status to be used on Commons. Josh (talk) 14:00, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
@VisbyStar and Matthias Winkelmann: Closed (no category action required at this time; non-free images should have deletion requests filed separately; if category becomes empty as a result, it can be removed) Josh (talk) 13:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)