Commons:Deletion requests/File:GoodwinLiu.jpg
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This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.
The Courts of California website does not contain that public domain statement and is their own separate website. On the Courts website, it says "(c) Supreme Court of California. All Rights Reserved." User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 00:45, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
- Keep. The nominator's first argument is incorrect, the court's website is within the ca.gov domain and therefore is not its "own separate website". Secondly, California's Public Records Act defines a "public record" as "any writing containing information relating to the conduct of a public's business prepared, owned, used or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristic." (emphasis mine). Obviously, the state courts fall within the designation "state or local agency". This compounded with the decision of the state appellate courts that anything that falls within the public record designation is not eligible for copyright makes it very clear that this image is in the public domain. --Haha169 (talk) 20:55, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
�Delete This image is from before he joined the court source and we have no evidence that it was taken by a state employee. The Bay Citizen calls it a courtesy photo and its file name there is "faculty photo". The Huffington Post and Politico claim the image belongs to the Associated Press [1][2]. Now the AP may merely have claimed copyright or may have obtained it, but regardless, I have doubts this is a free image and we have no evidence to go on except that it is hosted by a California state website that hosts all kinds of images without sourcing them properly. Hekerui (talk) 22:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Deleted: Just because California hosts it does not mean that they own the copyright. . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 15:36, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
