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: There is a small profile page of Sadeq [http://www.lightstalkers.org/musadeqsadeq here]. Sounds like he is an independent photographer who has licensed his work to AP and others. Definitely not a full-time State Department employee; as for the other possibility it may depend on the details of the contract. It's possible but I'm not sure it's something we can assume. The photographer appears to be on facebook and twitter; perhaps he could be contacted and asked. [[User:Clindberg|Carl Lindberg]] ([[User talk:Clindberg|talk]]) 05:05, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

: There is a small profile page of Sadeq [http://www.lightstalkers.org/musadeqsadeq here]. Sounds like he is an independent photographer who has licensed his work to AP and others. Definitely not a full-time State Department employee; as for the other possibility it may depend on the details of the contract. It's possible but I'm not sure it's something we can assume. The photographer appears to be on facebook and twitter; perhaps he could be contacted and asked. [[User:Clindberg|Carl Lindberg]] ([[User talk:Clindberg|talk]]) 05:05, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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:The credit line is for '''credit''' - it doesn't always imply part-ownership. It's a little counterintuitive, but a credit line of "NAME/Organisation" is often used where the organisation is a distributor for the author; they don't claim rights, but want to get their name in.

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:We had similar problems with the US Antarctic Program image library a few months back - every image in it was provided by private contributors, but their recommended credit line of "NAME/National Science Foundation" was mistakenly read as implying NSF were the authors/copyright holders. We ended up deleting several hundred images including a few FPs.

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:Given this experience, I would be very very careful in cases like this, especially if it's a known freelance photographer. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 13:00, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

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