User talk:Evan T Jones

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Evan T Jones!

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Copyright status: File:Two Moons V&A catalogue.jpg

Copyright status: File:Two Moons V&A catalogue.jpg

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File:Bristol Perambulation map.jpg

File:Bristol Perambulation map.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: Google Maps are copyrighted Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Belbury (talk) 17:56, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for putting this together, but I'm afraid Commons can't accept screenshots of Google Maps, because the underlying map imagery is copyrighted!

If you were assembling this route map in an image editor, you may able to swap out map with the same area from https://www.openstreetmap.org, which is freely licenced for Commons to use.

If you're interested in making a more robust interactive map there's also some guidance at en:Wikipedia:Creating route maps from OpenStreetMap data, although I've never tried it myself so can't give any specific advice. Belbury (talk) 18:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I assumed that since the map in the image is quite low magnification, Google Maps would not query this. It's not as if someone might decide to use my map as an alternative to using Google Maps, thereby undermining their business model. Indeed, since I link to the Google Map, which a user would need to access to follow the route in practice, the map I posted is almost certainly going to increase Google's user base - very, very, slightly!. Given this, I thought my inclusion of the screenshot would count as a 'fair use' derivation of Google's material. Evan T Jones (talk) 19:47, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

That's a fair initial expectation, but Commons is very strict about copyright, and explicitly doesn't allow fair use uploads, since fair use laws can vary from country to country (see Commons:Fair use). The goal of the project here is that all images can be freely used by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose.

From a look at https://about.google/brand-resource-center/products-and-services/geo-guidelines a publisher would be breaking Google's rules on map use if, having found your map on Commons, they included it in a book about Bristol to illustrate the boundary route. Commons should not be telling that publisher that the map is free to use under a CC-Attribution licence, when this isn't actually the case. Belbury (talk) 20:26, 12 May 2024 (UTC)