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Question about listing the proper copyright

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Guy Macon (talkcontribs)

I am not very familiar with how copyrights are documented here.

The file

File:VLC 3.0.9 on Fedora Linux 31 and GNOME Shell 3.34 -- playing Spring, a short film by Blender Foundation.png

Looks like it is claiming that it is a screenshot from free and open source software (which VLC is) but does not appear to mention the copyright status of the Spring film itself.

Spring is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). See

https://www.blender.org/press/spring-open-movie/

https://cloud.blender.org/p/spring/about

Should we somehow indicate the copyright status of the movie the screenshot is from as well as the copyright status of the software that the screenshot was taken from?

DSquirrelGM (talkcontribs)

Both should be mentioned, if it's intended to be associated with both. Having separate sections for each - let's call it, component - of the screenshot with license info seems to be the best course of action.

Bawolff (talkcontribs)

honestly, i would much prefer these types of files be at commons. Local uploads are a it of a mess.

Guy Macon (talkcontribs)

Can someone please make the proper copyright notices happen? I don't know how. --Guy Macon (talk) 10:42, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Bawolff (talkcontribs)
Bawolff (talkcontribs)

anyways, i fixed the file, but for future reference, non technical questions about images hosted at Wikimedia Commons should be directed to Wikimedia Commons. This page is for technical help using MediaWiki, with an emphasis on helping people who are using MediaWiki outside the Wikimedia movement.

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