23 Mar

Commons:Village pump/Copyright

‎Copyright of derivative work, i.e. picture of a commercial product (United States)
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Folks,

Folks,

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A little help on understanding copyright of derivative works in the United States. In particular I took a picture of a couple of Dairgold milk containers for the Wikipedia article on the company. I recently received a notification of possible copyright violation for this picture. I have looked though the discussion pages but can't/didn't find clarity on whether you can post pictures of (probably copyrighted) commercial products (in the United States). Would it matter if it subject of the picture or incidental in the picture? Seems like there are lots of pictures of commercial products in the Wikimedia files. Thanks.
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A little help on understanding copyright of derivative works in the United States. In particular I took a picture of a couple of Dairgold milk containers for the Wikipedia article on the company. I recently received a notification of possible copyright violation for this picture. I have looked though the discussion pages but can't/didn't find clarity on whether you can post pictures of (probably copyrighted) commercial products (in the United States). Would it matter if it subject of the picture or incidental in the picture? Seems like there are lots of pictures of commercial products in the Wikimedia files. Thanks.

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:I presume you mean [[:File:Dg milk containers.jpg]]. The old bottle is probably ok either as simple text or no notice and could be cropped out separately, but the modern carton is clearly copyrighted and can't stay here. You could try moving to WP as fair use but they are pretty stringent as to what they permit. Product labels here do not get as much scrutiny as they should get. [[User:Dankarl|Dankarl]] ([[User talk:Dankarl|talk]]) 23:14, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

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