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The article says: "The U.S. Copyright Law is Title 17 of the United States Code (17 USC), chapters 1 through 8 and 10 through 12. Chapters 9 and 13 contain design protection laws on semiconductor chips and ship hulls that are of no interest or relevance for Wikipedia."
This is not correct. We have a wide variety of images of semiconductor chips in the various WMF projects, most notably Commons:Category:Integrated circuits. If the chips are copyrighted, then the images infringe and cannot be kept on Commons. Similarly, we have a wide variety of images of ship hulls.
Therefore, I see no reason why these two chapters of 17 USC should be treated any differently from the rest. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward ( talk to me • contribs) 15:33, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
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61.1.216.137 ( talk) 17:17, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
@ JohnCD: How to avoid these issues in submission and while seeking sources for content expansion. Say if i want to add content to an article and the source would be an article or textbook. The image will also be from the article. Is there wikipedia tool where one can create charts and diagrams that will reflect the same details as in the source image. 59.88.211.226 ( talk) 10:21, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
I note that the page here only refers to documents issued by the US and UK governments. Does anyone know whether other national governments tend to copyright their own publications, and/or which governments do and do not copyright their publications? I think a lot of foreign government publications are really useful for material on some ethnic groups in their countries, for instance, and it might be very useful to know how we can use such material. John Carter ( talk) 18:07, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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The article says: "The U.S. Copyright Law is Title 17 of the United States Code (17 USC), chapters 1 through 8 and 10 through 12. Chapters 9 and 13 contain design protection laws on semiconductor chips and ship hulls that are of no interest or relevance for Wikipedia."
This is not correct. We have a wide variety of images of semiconductor chips in the various WMF projects, most notably Commons:Category:Integrated circuits. If the chips are copyrighted, then the images infringe and cannot be kept on Commons. Similarly, we have a wide variety of images of ship hulls.
Therefore, I see no reason why these two chapters of 17 USC should be treated any differently from the rest. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward ( talk to me • contribs) 15:33, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
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61.1.216.137 ( talk) 17:17, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
@ JohnCD: How to avoid these issues in submission and while seeking sources for content expansion. Say if i want to add content to an article and the source would be an article or textbook. The image will also be from the article. Is there wikipedia tool where one can create charts and diagrams that will reflect the same details as in the source image. 59.88.211.226 ( talk) 10:21, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
I note that the page here only refers to documents issued by the US and UK governments. Does anyone know whether other national governments tend to copyright their own publications, and/or which governments do and do not copyright their publications? I think a lot of foreign government publications are really useful for material on some ethnic groups in their countries, for instance, and it might be very useful to know how we can use such material. John Carter ( talk) 18:07, 9 May 2016 (UTC)