A member of Einsatzgruppe D is about to shoot a man sitting by a mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942. Present in the background are members of the German Army, the German Labor Service, and the Hitler Youth.[91] The back of the photograph is inscribed "The last Jew in Vinnitsa".File:Einsatzgruppen-Killingfull.jpgVersion 2 Better quality digitization? (from the library of congress)
Reason
High resolution, captures an event that can never be forgotten and 100% non-reproductible
The creator is certainly not the USHM, and I doubt it really is in the PD in the US. The photographer is most definitely not a member of the allied forces. My guess would be that the picture was taken by a german SS (or possibly Wehrmacht) soldier, and thus would be copyrighted until at least 2012 (assuming the photographer died in 1942). A pretty iconic and strong picture. Unfortunately the license needs some further investigation. --
Dschwen20:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment -- Amazing picture, of course, but I'm sure I've seen better versions of it. As for the license, good catch Dschwen, but I can't believe all the Nazi stuff we have isn't PD; I see you're correct, though. Stupid laws. --TotoBaggins00:24, 23 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment Wouldn't copyright from that period only still be in effect if there was a notice on the image, or at least a renewal, so it's safe to assume that any copyright that did exist has lapsed? I also have issues with the quality of the scan. It looks blocky or otherwise degraded, like it was a scan of a photocopy instead of the original image.
Night Gyr (
talk/
Oy) 06:46, 23 May 2007 (UTC
Under
United States copyright law, to quote our article, "For works that received their copyright before 1978, a renewal had to be filed in the work's 28th year with the Library of Congress Copyright Office for its term of protection to be extended. The need for renewal was eliminated in 1992, but works that had already entered the public domain by non-renewal did not regain copyright protection. Therefore, works published before 1964 that were not renewed are in the public domain. " The 70 years requirement only holds for works that hadn't yet entered the public domain in 1978. But that's US law.
Night Gyr (
talk/
Oy)
06:56, 23 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Sorry, but the USHM cannot release a picture into the PD which is still copyrighted by someone else, unless they can properly document a transfer of rights of some kind. This issue comes up every time I see a picture from the USHM website. They quite frankly either have no clue about the legal situation, or they don't care. Anyways, in their position would also try to handle copright situation as liberal as possible, as their educational mission is fairly important. But falsely claiming PD is just too much of a stretch, and it is pretty annoying that people believe their bogus licensing every time due to their perceived authority. --
Dschwen13:30, 23 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I tend to think these images are in a legal wasteland so they just assume PD... or maybe they do know how the copyright holder is. I usually think it's proper to trust them unless we have evidence to the contrary.
grenグレン21:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)reply
The German government doesn't usually claim copyright on holocaust related photographs, the stroop report photos were gifted to the polish institute of national remembrance, and this photo is over 50 years old, many photographs are considered public domain according to German law Article 72
Bleh99909:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Support version 2 - Great photograph of a tragic situation, I would like to see more information on the discovery of this photograph, was it released through the polish government in exile or USSR?
Bleh99909:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong oppose on copyright grounds. There is no evidence this photograph is in the public domain (other than two words on a website that does not specialize in copyright), and until there is this nomination cannot be approved.--
Pharos11:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I disagree with you 'that there is no evidence this photograph is in the public domain', USHMM and the Library of Congress are considered reliable sources on wikipedia, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz has this image in its archive (# 30003980), but they say photographer is unknown, hence unable to claim copyright
Bleh99911:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
The USHMM is a reliable source on many things, but not on international copyright law. There is no evidence the Library of Congress considers this image public domain.--
Pharos11:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
USHMM is pretty clear to credit the specific copyright owners for images they don't own copyright, not all the images are labeled public domain, they say this image is public domain and courtesy of the library of congress, I don't see why it's not true
Bleh99911:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I have no doubt they made a good-faith effort in labeling this image, but they just don't exercise the copyright scrutiny that we do (or that the Library of Congress does). Mistakes do sneak in. And when they label a photograph "Public Domain" when we have every reason to believe it to be copyrighted, we cannot take that at face value without further explanation or evidence.--
Pharos11:58, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
But I think the onus is on the people who think this image is copyrighted to do some research to prove it is, besides this image is not on commons but only on the en wiki, so only US law applies here. If this was a captured or seized photograph and the author is unknown then it is also PD after 50 years in most countries according to the Berne convention
Bleh99912:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
No, it is clearly the responsibility of the nominators to show that the image meets the very basic criteria of being a free image. And there is just no evidence or reason at all to believe that this image is public domain in the United States, or anywhere else.--
Pharos12:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Well you only seem to claim USHMM made a mistake by claiming the library of congress released the image into the public domain (but you didn't offer any proof that USHMM and the Library of Congress made a mistake about the image being PD) and yes the image is explicitly labeled as public domain as USHMM photo #64407, that is proof enough since I don't think their claim has been refuted
Bleh99912:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
By Pharos's argument, we should delist most Featured Pictures because they don't have a handwritten (and signed in blood) letter from the creator indicating release of copyright. Anyone who submits their "own" work to Wikipedia would be in the same situation; after all, how do we know that Fir0002 has ever actually taken a photograph? Maybe he's found a nice database of images, and he's just been stealing them all these years. Wikipedia is not a reliable source for copyright claims, so Image-space copyright claims should be held to such high scrutiny (or should they?). —
BRIAN0918 • 2007-05-25 20:13Z
Strong supportStrong support version 2 The copyright finally seems satisfactory...so I;m giving my full support. The pic is extremely grainy, but given the circumstances and rarity of the pic, the historic value overrides the technical problems. Very encyclopedic...certainly one of the best on Wikipedia.
JumpingcheeseCont@ct06:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)reply
The scan from the Library on Congress is much clearer and less noisy than the one from the USHMM. The original one is also cropped, so it looses some of the historical context.
JumpingcheeseCont@ct04:26, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Oppose Poor quality for even for a WWII photo and copyright is questionable, but in reality know one would ever challenge its use.
Chris H01:45, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I second this, promotion can not take place before the 7 day mark and it is questionable for the nominator to do the promotion.
Chris H01:45, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Nope, leave it down here. The copyright situation clearly needs clarification and the legal situation is not up for vote here. --
Dschwen19:27, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Who cares though, if we're allowed to display it on the
holocaust and the
einsatzgruppen pages, whats wrong with displaying it on the main page?
Featured Pictures have to be genuinely free. They have a PR function and stand for the best Wikipedia has to offer. Other people might want to spread the FPs and any legal limitation or copyright issue reflects badly on the supposedly free Wikipedia. --
Dschwen20:47, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Copyright clarification: The pic is released into the Public Domain by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as indicated by the
copyright page for the pic. The credit is "USHMM, courtesy of Library of Congress" and the copyright is "Public Domain"...as black and white as that. The issue seems to be a distrust of the validity of the copyright status as provided by the USHMM. I'm not sure if I missed something, but I'm assuming that the USHMM is a rather trustworthy organization. I'm aware of the German law that states that 70 years has to pass after the photographer's death before the pic is released in PD. However, this pic was probably released into PD before the copyright expiration period and transfered over to the Library of Congress, which allowed the USHMM to use the pic. Given no other sources that would directly indicate the copyright status to be different, why should the copyright come into question? Furthermore,
this nom has the same copyright status as based on the info provided by the USHMM. That nom passed and appeared as pic of the day back in Sept. 26, 2006. There was also some controversy over the pic's copyright status
[1], but the tag was reverted since there was no clear copyvio.
JumpingcheeseCont@ct21:58, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
And that image of the Warsaw ghetto uprising from the Juergen Stroop report was incorrectly deleted, I emailed the bundesarchiv in Koblenz (which holds a copy of those photographs) and they say the German government claims no copyright over those images and transferred them to the Polish institute of Remembrance, also those photos are in the US national archives too. The people in that deletion request did not even bother to clarify the copyright status, and so I didn't bother to reply since the discussion is closed.
Bleh99909:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I added a new version, this hasn't been resized, its the native resolution from the library of congress. I did adjust the contrast though.
Bleh99911:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I guess the library of congress won't mind if I post the link to the uncompressed tif file,
[3] and yes I did adjust the the black & white levels, because the original is dark as you can see and I cropped the white border, but there is no retouching or manipulation in the version I uploaded, as you can verify.
Bleh99908:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
and that source link states Rights status not evaluated. There seems to be a misconception of all LOC material being PD or otherwise free... --
Dschwen10:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course not all LOC material is PD, since it is a library, however this item is PD and USHMM told me in an email the Library of Congress and the 'Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes' provided them with the copyright information regarding this photograph, so I guess they must have confirmed it is PD --
Bleh99911:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
On the copyright issue, see
WP:PD#German World War II images for some background. It is possible that this image is PD in the U.S. by virtue of being "seized enemy property". (That doesn't make it PD elsewhere, though. Commons treats German WWII era photos as copyrighted. Mark both images with text saying that these images should not be transferred to the commons.) Here at the en-WP, we operate under U.S. law exclusively, AFAIK, and we host quite a few such confiscated Nazi-era images available from the NARA, the USHMM, or the LoC (even if we may know better concerning the copyrights elsewhere, I presume they know better what they may legally do within the U.S....) I'll happily contend such PD claims over at the commons, because they only apply within the U.S., but here, they appear to me to be acceptable.
Lupo12:08, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Oh, and BTW, if you do have an e-mail from the USHMM on that image, please forward it to permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org, clearly stating to what images this refers. Thank you.
Lupo12:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
email PhotoArchives@ushmm.org and ask yourself, although emailing them may be pointless since some here dispute USHMMs authority to claim this is PD anyway
Bleh99912:17, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
You've got it all backwards bleh, I have no obligation to prove that there are licensing inconsistencies (and in particular I have no obligation to do any legwork for you). The uploader (and on FPC the nominator) has to prove that the license is ok. The main issue is that the USHMM did not provide any information on the origin of the image. If they claim that it is PD they have to give a reason. They did not shoot the picture and therefore they cannot release it to PD on their own authority. --
Dschwen12:22, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
The onus is on you to provide proof that this image is not public domain as claimed by USHMM, I suggest since you are fluent in German you contact the Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes, which is a primary source for information on this image according to USHMM --
Bleh99912:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Moved to 'suspended nominations' section. The concerns over copyright are sufficient to need further investigation before we decide what to do with this one.
Raven4x4x08:13, 2 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Fair enough, people concerned about copyright should read comments by Lupo above, even if it is theoretically copyrighted in Germany, it doesn't mean it has a valid copyright in the US, look at Price vs United States:' United States Court of Appeals, Fifth circuit, 20 November, 1995
[5], where Price sued the US government on behalf of Heinrich Hoffman's heirs but lost and the case confirmed the items captured were PD in the US. Heinrich Hoffman had a better case for having the copyright to his images restored than the author of this einsatzgruppen shooting image, because his images didn't depict illegal acts and that might be why the author of this image is unknown, it seems he wasn't eager to gain credit for his photography
Bleh99910:40, 2 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Copyright issue clarified. I would like to drop my opposition to this photograph on copyright grounds. It was difficult to get an explicit statement on the copyright status of these photos from NARA, but I finally got one, which I much appreciate. Please see
User:Pharos/NARA.--
Pharos04:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Pharos while I respect your efforts, I have to be honest, this is actually not a NARA image AFAIK. I sent some emails to the places USHMM said but never got any response, maybe someone else can try.
Bleh99905:55, 21 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Discussion reopened I'll follow howcheng's lead and move this nomination out of the suspended section. Since there's been a significant amount of comments on the nomination already, I don't believe it needs be placed on top of the page, as was the other WWII nomination. I'll add it back to the appropriate time slot. Jumpingcheese10:05, 19 June 2007 (UTC)reply
A member of Einsatzgruppe D is about to shoot a man sitting by a mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942. Present in the background are members of the German Army, the German Labor Service, and the Hitler Youth.[91] The back of the photograph is inscribed "The last Jew in Vinnitsa".File:Einsatzgruppen-Killingfull.jpgVersion 2 Better quality digitization? (from the library of congress)
Reason
High resolution, captures an event that can never be forgotten and 100% non-reproductible
The creator is certainly not the USHM, and I doubt it really is in the PD in the US. The photographer is most definitely not a member of the allied forces. My guess would be that the picture was taken by a german SS (or possibly Wehrmacht) soldier, and thus would be copyrighted until at least 2012 (assuming the photographer died in 1942). A pretty iconic and strong picture. Unfortunately the license needs some further investigation. --
Dschwen20:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment -- Amazing picture, of course, but I'm sure I've seen better versions of it. As for the license, good catch Dschwen, but I can't believe all the Nazi stuff we have isn't PD; I see you're correct, though. Stupid laws. --TotoBaggins00:24, 23 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Comment Wouldn't copyright from that period only still be in effect if there was a notice on the image, or at least a renewal, so it's safe to assume that any copyright that did exist has lapsed? I also have issues with the quality of the scan. It looks blocky or otherwise degraded, like it was a scan of a photocopy instead of the original image.
Night Gyr (
talk/
Oy) 06:46, 23 May 2007 (UTC
Under
United States copyright law, to quote our article, "For works that received their copyright before 1978, a renewal had to be filed in the work's 28th year with the Library of Congress Copyright Office for its term of protection to be extended. The need for renewal was eliminated in 1992, but works that had already entered the public domain by non-renewal did not regain copyright protection. Therefore, works published before 1964 that were not renewed are in the public domain. " The 70 years requirement only holds for works that hadn't yet entered the public domain in 1978. But that's US law.
Night Gyr (
talk/
Oy)
06:56, 23 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Sorry, but the USHM cannot release a picture into the PD which is still copyrighted by someone else, unless they can properly document a transfer of rights of some kind. This issue comes up every time I see a picture from the USHM website. They quite frankly either have no clue about the legal situation, or they don't care. Anyways, in their position would also try to handle copright situation as liberal as possible, as their educational mission is fairly important. But falsely claiming PD is just too much of a stretch, and it is pretty annoying that people believe their bogus licensing every time due to their perceived authority. --
Dschwen13:30, 23 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I tend to think these images are in a legal wasteland so they just assume PD... or maybe they do know how the copyright holder is. I usually think it's proper to trust them unless we have evidence to the contrary.
grenグレン21:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)reply
The German government doesn't usually claim copyright on holocaust related photographs, the stroop report photos were gifted to the polish institute of national remembrance, and this photo is over 50 years old, many photographs are considered public domain according to German law Article 72
Bleh99909:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Support version 2 - Great photograph of a tragic situation, I would like to see more information on the discovery of this photograph, was it released through the polish government in exile or USSR?
Bleh99909:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong oppose on copyright grounds. There is no evidence this photograph is in the public domain (other than two words on a website that does not specialize in copyright), and until there is this nomination cannot be approved.--
Pharos11:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I disagree with you 'that there is no evidence this photograph is in the public domain', USHMM and the Library of Congress are considered reliable sources on wikipedia, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz has this image in its archive (# 30003980), but they say photographer is unknown, hence unable to claim copyright
Bleh99911:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
The USHMM is a reliable source on many things, but not on international copyright law. There is no evidence the Library of Congress considers this image public domain.--
Pharos11:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
USHMM is pretty clear to credit the specific copyright owners for images they don't own copyright, not all the images are labeled public domain, they say this image is public domain and courtesy of the library of congress, I don't see why it's not true
Bleh99911:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I have no doubt they made a good-faith effort in labeling this image, but they just don't exercise the copyright scrutiny that we do (or that the Library of Congress does). Mistakes do sneak in. And when they label a photograph "Public Domain" when we have every reason to believe it to be copyrighted, we cannot take that at face value without further explanation or evidence.--
Pharos11:58, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
But I think the onus is on the people who think this image is copyrighted to do some research to prove it is, besides this image is not on commons but only on the en wiki, so only US law applies here. If this was a captured or seized photograph and the author is unknown then it is also PD after 50 years in most countries according to the Berne convention
Bleh99912:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
No, it is clearly the responsibility of the nominators to show that the image meets the very basic criteria of being a free image. And there is just no evidence or reason at all to believe that this image is public domain in the United States, or anywhere else.--
Pharos12:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Well you only seem to claim USHMM made a mistake by claiming the library of congress released the image into the public domain (but you didn't offer any proof that USHMM and the Library of Congress made a mistake about the image being PD) and yes the image is explicitly labeled as public domain as USHMM photo #64407, that is proof enough since I don't think their claim has been refuted
Bleh99912:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC)reply
By Pharos's argument, we should delist most Featured Pictures because they don't have a handwritten (and signed in blood) letter from the creator indicating release of copyright. Anyone who submits their "own" work to Wikipedia would be in the same situation; after all, how do we know that Fir0002 has ever actually taken a photograph? Maybe he's found a nice database of images, and he's just been stealing them all these years. Wikipedia is not a reliable source for copyright claims, so Image-space copyright claims should be held to such high scrutiny (or should they?). —
BRIAN0918 • 2007-05-25 20:13Z
Strong supportStrong support version 2 The copyright finally seems satisfactory...so I;m giving my full support. The pic is extremely grainy, but given the circumstances and rarity of the pic, the historic value overrides the technical problems. Very encyclopedic...certainly one of the best on Wikipedia.
JumpingcheeseCont@ct06:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)reply
The scan from the Library on Congress is much clearer and less noisy than the one from the USHMM. The original one is also cropped, so it looses some of the historical context.
JumpingcheeseCont@ct04:26, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Strong Oppose Poor quality for even for a WWII photo and copyright is questionable, but in reality know one would ever challenge its use.
Chris H01:45, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I second this, promotion can not take place before the 7 day mark and it is questionable for the nominator to do the promotion.
Chris H01:45, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Nope, leave it down here. The copyright situation clearly needs clarification and the legal situation is not up for vote here. --
Dschwen19:27, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Who cares though, if we're allowed to display it on the
holocaust and the
einsatzgruppen pages, whats wrong with displaying it on the main page?
Featured Pictures have to be genuinely free. They have a PR function and stand for the best Wikipedia has to offer. Other people might want to spread the FPs and any legal limitation or copyright issue reflects badly on the supposedly free Wikipedia. --
Dschwen20:47, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Copyright clarification: The pic is released into the Public Domain by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as indicated by the
copyright page for the pic. The credit is "USHMM, courtesy of Library of Congress" and the copyright is "Public Domain"...as black and white as that. The issue seems to be a distrust of the validity of the copyright status as provided by the USHMM. I'm not sure if I missed something, but I'm assuming that the USHMM is a rather trustworthy organization. I'm aware of the German law that states that 70 years has to pass after the photographer's death before the pic is released in PD. However, this pic was probably released into PD before the copyright expiration period and transfered over to the Library of Congress, which allowed the USHMM to use the pic. Given no other sources that would directly indicate the copyright status to be different, why should the copyright come into question? Furthermore,
this nom has the same copyright status as based on the info provided by the USHMM. That nom passed and appeared as pic of the day back in Sept. 26, 2006. There was also some controversy over the pic's copyright status
[1], but the tag was reverted since there was no clear copyvio.
JumpingcheeseCont@ct21:58, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
And that image of the Warsaw ghetto uprising from the Juergen Stroop report was incorrectly deleted, I emailed the bundesarchiv in Koblenz (which holds a copy of those photographs) and they say the German government claims no copyright over those images and transferred them to the Polish institute of Remembrance, also those photos are in the US national archives too. The people in that deletion request did not even bother to clarify the copyright status, and so I didn't bother to reply since the discussion is closed.
Bleh99909:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I added a new version, this hasn't been resized, its the native resolution from the library of congress. I did adjust the contrast though.
Bleh99911:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)reply
I guess the library of congress won't mind if I post the link to the uncompressed tif file,
[3] and yes I did adjust the the black & white levels, because the original is dark as you can see and I cropped the white border, but there is no retouching or manipulation in the version I uploaded, as you can verify.
Bleh99908:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)reply
and that source link states Rights status not evaluated. There seems to be a misconception of all LOC material being PD or otherwise free... --
Dschwen10:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Of course not all LOC material is PD, since it is a library, however this item is PD and USHMM told me in an email the Library of Congress and the 'Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes' provided them with the copyright information regarding this photograph, so I guess they must have confirmed it is PD --
Bleh99911:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
On the copyright issue, see
WP:PD#German World War II images for some background. It is possible that this image is PD in the U.S. by virtue of being "seized enemy property". (That doesn't make it PD elsewhere, though. Commons treats German WWII era photos as copyrighted. Mark both images with text saying that these images should not be transferred to the commons.) Here at the en-WP, we operate under U.S. law exclusively, AFAIK, and we host quite a few such confiscated Nazi-era images available from the NARA, the USHMM, or the LoC (even if we may know better concerning the copyrights elsewhere, I presume they know better what they may legally do within the U.S....) I'll happily contend such PD claims over at the commons, because they only apply within the U.S., but here, they appear to me to be acceptable.
Lupo12:08, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Oh, and BTW, if you do have an e-mail from the USHMM on that image, please forward it to permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org, clearly stating to what images this refers. Thank you.
Lupo12:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
email PhotoArchives@ushmm.org and ask yourself, although emailing them may be pointless since some here dispute USHMMs authority to claim this is PD anyway
Bleh99912:17, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
You've got it all backwards bleh, I have no obligation to prove that there are licensing inconsistencies (and in particular I have no obligation to do any legwork for you). The uploader (and on FPC the nominator) has to prove that the license is ok. The main issue is that the USHMM did not provide any information on the origin of the image. If they claim that it is PD they have to give a reason. They did not shoot the picture and therefore they cannot release it to PD on their own authority. --
Dschwen12:22, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
The onus is on you to provide proof that this image is not public domain as claimed by USHMM, I suggest since you are fluent in German you contact the Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes, which is a primary source for information on this image according to USHMM --
Bleh99912:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Moved to 'suspended nominations' section. The concerns over copyright are sufficient to need further investigation before we decide what to do with this one.
Raven4x4x08:13, 2 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Fair enough, people concerned about copyright should read comments by Lupo above, even if it is theoretically copyrighted in Germany, it doesn't mean it has a valid copyright in the US, look at Price vs United States:' United States Court of Appeals, Fifth circuit, 20 November, 1995
[5], where Price sued the US government on behalf of Heinrich Hoffman's heirs but lost and the case confirmed the items captured were PD in the US. Heinrich Hoffman had a better case for having the copyright to his images restored than the author of this einsatzgruppen shooting image, because his images didn't depict illegal acts and that might be why the author of this image is unknown, it seems he wasn't eager to gain credit for his photography
Bleh99910:40, 2 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Copyright issue clarified. I would like to drop my opposition to this photograph on copyright grounds. It was difficult to get an explicit statement on the copyright status of these photos from NARA, but I finally got one, which I much appreciate. Please see
User:Pharos/NARA.--
Pharos04:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Pharos while I respect your efforts, I have to be honest, this is actually not a NARA image AFAIK. I sent some emails to the places USHMM said but never got any response, maybe someone else can try.
Bleh99905:55, 21 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Discussion reopened I'll follow howcheng's lead and move this nomination out of the suspended section. Since there's been a significant amount of comments on the nomination already, I don't believe it needs be placed on top of the page, as was the other WWII nomination. I'll add it back to the appropriate time slot. Jumpingcheese10:05, 19 June 2007 (UTC)reply