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‎Copyright help regarding File:CAPTCHA Banner.jpg
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::* Probably artistic enough to be eligible for copyright. "Can be found on many sites" is beside the point. Sorry. - [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] ! [[User talk:Jmabel|talk]] 00:17, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

::* Probably artistic enough to be eligible for copyright. "Can be found on many sites" is beside the point. Sorry. - [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] ! [[User talk:Jmabel|talk]] 00:17, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

:::The meaning was, it was published and got popular, so it's hard to find were it began. None of the sites which are using this image claimed ownership on it as the creator or referred the ownership to another person. The question is, if something like an Internet meme can be copyrighted. Those are published totally ignoring of copyrights issues, so it's really hard to tell who was the first to publish it. [[User:Galzigler|Galzigler]] ([[User talk:Galzigler|talk]]) 15:24, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

:::The meaning was, it was published and got popular, so it's hard to find were it began. None of the sites which are using this image claimed ownership on it as the creator or referred the ownership to another person. The question is, if something like an Internet meme can be copyrighted. Those are published totally ignoring of copyrights issues, so it's really hard to tell who was the first to publish it. [[User:Galzigler|Galzigler]] ([[User talk:Galzigler|talk]]) 15:24, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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:::: Yes, pictures that become Internet memes can be copyrighted. It says so right in the copyright law, that pictures are copyright upon creation.--[[User:Prosfilaes|Prosfilaes]] ([[User talk:Prosfilaes|talk]]) 22:11, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

== license photos from original article into the English translated entry ==

== license photos from original article into the English translated entry ==

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