Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Operation Payback

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Files in Category:Operation Payback

Some of these are clearly derivative of other works. The Pirate Bay logo is apparently free, but the Guy Fawkes mask is a copyrighted mass produced work without an intrinsic utilitarian value. But the blanket statement on "some website" that "Anonymous" releases their works into the public domain holds no legal weight. Anonymous is not a legal entity, has no contract with it's members to transfer intellectual property rights, and cannot own property in order to release those copyrights into the public domain. These would each need to be released under a free license individually by their individual creators.

• File:ACS-Law Poster.png
• File:Acs-law-attack.png
• File:Anonymous-Attacks-the-United-States-Copyright-Office-3.png
• File:Avenge Assange Anonymous.png
• File:DGLegal.png
• File:DmleF.png
• File:Irc-move.jpg
• File:Loic-poster.jpg
• File:LoicNewEraCrackerEdited.png
• File:NEWcallout.png
• File:Newshit-op.jpg
• File:Newshit2.jpg
• File:Op-flyer.jpg
• File:Op-info.png
• File:Opacs4.png
• File:Operation Payback GMlegal.png
• File:Operation Payback.png
• File:Operation-Payback.png
• File:Operationpayback500.png
• File:OperationPaybackIntro.jpg
• File:Oppic.jpg
• File:Papjoaacp.jpg
• File:Riaa-attack-2.png
• File:Riaa-attack-3.gif
• File:Riaa-attack-4.jpg
• File:Riaa-attack1.png
• File:Simmons-attack.png
• File:Simmons-flyer.png
• File:Wikileaks-op.png
• File:Wikileaks-op4.png

GMG^talk 21:25, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

• See also extended discussion here. GMG^talk 12:39, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

• I oppose GreenMeansGo's proposed deletions of LoicNewEraCrackerEdited.png and Wikileaks-op.png. The consensuses built at Commons:Deletion_requests/File:LoicNewEraCrackerEdited.png and Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Wikileaks-op.png favored keeping those images. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 18:54, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

• In the cases where the files infringe other copyrights, we cannot keep the images, but for the copyrights of the authors themselves, I'd quote Neo139: "This flyers are made for propaganda. and fights copyright. So the public domain is almost implicit." There is no need for Anonymous to have any legal power. Just regard it as a collective pseudonym, such as some user names on Commons. The copyright is an internal affair among those working under that pseudonym and in this case we have no reason to doubt the authors accept the PD declaration. --LPfi (talk) 08:07, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

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Deleted: Mixed close: Kept the two per Michaelsuarez, remainder deleted. If those two are still subject to discussion, I will not oppose a renomination. --Ellin Beltz (talk) 20:17, 3 December 2019 (UTC)