Commons:Bad sources

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This is a list of so called bad sources that initially appear usable on commons but on closer inspection are not usable or are self contradictory. Images from any of these sources should be tagged with the {{badsource}} template. Images so tagged will be placed in category:images from bad sources.

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[edit] List of bad sources

[edit] www.fotodatenbank.com

The usage conditions [1] are restrictive:
  • The images must not be provided for download (elsewhere) in the Internet. (original German: "Die Bilder dürfen nicht im Internet zum Download angeboten werden.")
  • The images must not be included in (other) collections of images. (German: "Die Bilder dürfen nicht in Bildersammlungen einverleibt werden.")
These are only two of more very clear hints, that this page is an unusable source.

[edit] Flags of the World

FoTW's copyright policy contains several unacceptable restrictions:
  • ...use the material for non-commercial and non-political purposes only
  • if you distribute our materials by a non-Internet way (e.g., floppy disks or CD-ROM) you cannot sell these media
  • you limit your use to a maximum of 5% of the images or content of the website
Do not upload any images from this site.

[edit] GM Media Online photos

While they claim to be licensing their images under the Creative Commons Attribution license, the page that links to it adds several more restrictions, namely,
The use of these images for advertising, marketing, or any other commercial purposes is prohibited. These images can be cropped, but may not be altered in any other way, and each should bear the credit line "© GM Corp."
Despite the text of the license they linked to from their page, their intent is quite clearly to allow a non-commercial, no-derivatives attribution license, which is not acceptable on the Commons. Whether linking to the CC-BY license would invalidate these stated restrictions is a finer legal point than we are qualified to deal with; furthermore, even if this would lean in our favor, it is also good form to respect the intent of copyright holders, rather than try and catch them out on legal technicalities like this.

[edit] National Gallery, UK

This is a UK site, and under UK law photographs hosted on it are almost always copyright-protected, even mere record photographs of paintings which are in themselves old enough to be in the public domain. The UK does not follow the US legal case Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., and the tag {{PD-Art}} which may apply to US works of art cannot therefore be used on any of these UK images. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag#UK. A photograph you have personally taken of a PD work of art within the gallery would be allowable, but one copied from the National Gallery website is not.

[edit] pixelquelle.de

As with fotodatenbank.com, the usage conditions [2] are restrictive:
  • Images can be used (...) excluding collections of images or similar where PixelQuelle.de images can be dowloaded or bought. (original: (...) "Ausgeschlossen hiervon sind Bilddatenbanken, Bildkataloge oder ähnliche, bei denen PixelQuelle.de Fotos zum Download oder Verkauf angeboten werden.")

[edit] www.20minutos.es

Even though they use the CC-by license it should be noted that it applies only in the case that they are the original creator of material. In other words, text, photographs and other media originating from other news agencies is not covered by the CC license:
1.- Esta licencia no se aplica a los contenidos publicados por 20minutos procedentes de los terceros siguientes: Textos, gráficos, informaciones e imágenes que vayan firmados o sean atribuidos a Agencias, Reuters, Efe, Europa Press, Korpa, Atlas, France Press, AP, Lanetro, Meteotemp, TPI o J.M. Nieto. Tampoco los anuncios clasificados ya sean textos o fotos o cualquier otro proporcionados por compraventa.com en el área de clasificados de 20minutos.es. Para reproducir dichos contenidos necesitarás el consentimiento de los terceros.'
1. This license does not apply to the content published by 20 minutos obtained from the following third parties: Text, graphics, information and images signed or attributed to Agencias, Reuters, Efe, Europa Press, Korpa, Atlas, France Press, AP, Lanetro, Meteotemp, TPI o J.M. Nieto. Nor do classified advertisement, either in text or pictures or any other provided by compraventa.com on the classifieds sections of 20minutos.es. In order to reproduce such content, you will need consent from the third party.

[edit] www.publico.es

Even though they use the CC-by-sa license it should be noted that it applies only in the case that they are the original creator of material. In other words, text, photographs and other media originating from other news agencies is not covered by the CC license:
1. Esta licencia no se aplica a los contenidos publicados por Público procedentes de los terceros siguientes: Textos, gráficos, informaciones e imágenes que vayan firmados o sean atribuidos a Agencias, Reuters, Efe, Europa Press, Atlas, France Press o AP.
2. Los dibujos de los viñetistas del diario Público no podrán ser reproducidos con fines comerciales.
1. This license does not apply to the content published by 20 minutos obtained from the following third parties: Text, graphics, information and images signed or attributed to Agencias, Reuters, Efe, Europa Press, Atlas, France Press o AP. Nor do classified advertisement, either in text or pictures or any other provided by compraventa.com on the classifieds sections of 20minutos.es. In order to reproduce such content, you will need consent from the third party.
2. Drawings by Publico's cartoonists cannot be reproduced with commercially.

[edit] Stock.Xchng

See also Commons:Stock.xchng images.

Images sourced from Stock.xchng (sxc.hu) are not allowed on Wikimedia Commons, unless they are explicitly licensed under a free license. Preferably those permissions are recorded in OTRS. All Stock.xchng image that have not been independently released under a free license are subject to speedy deletion since July 1, 2007. See Commons:Deletion requests/Template:Sxc-warning and Template:Sxc-warning for more information.

[edit] Seebeforeyoudie.net

Although Seebeforeyoudie will gladly give you a free release for the images on their site, they don't actually have the right to do that. Seebeforeyoudie accepts open submissions from the Internet, and doesn't require their users to agree to any license at upload. They do not even appear to make an effort to ensure that the uploader is the copyright holder. As such any claim that they make about their images being freely licensed is inaccurate at best.

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