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Kirilloparma (talk) 04:24, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Belbury (talk) 15:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Belbury: I have provided a more concise evidence of sourcing and licensing - linked. Is this satisfactory? Thanks, WhoAteMyButter (talk) 17:47, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 09:59, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Explanation About Non-Free Status of Screenshots

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I am not sure that I understand. Are you and the policies and guidelines that you are referring to saying that a Microsoft copyright exists in screenshots taken on a computer running Microsoft utilities with a Microsoft operating system? I have just read the guideline that you referred to twice, and it appears that is what you mean, but it is hard for me to understand where it says that or how this applies. Is there a more detailed guideline that I can read that applies to Microsoft screenshots in Commons? Robert McClenon (talk) 23:59, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Robert McClenon: Please read COM:DW and COM:NETC.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:07, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, User:Jeff G. - You referred me to a page about derivative works, and a page about Internet images. I am not entirely sure that I understand what is considered in this context to be a derivative work of what, but I don't understand about Internet images, because these were not Internet images. At least, they were not on the Internet until I accidentally opened this can of worms by posting them to Commons. So how does the guideline on Internet images apply? Robert McClenon (talk) 00:18, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The image is of File Explorer, a product of Microsoft. Microsoft owns the copyright over the application, and screenshots of any application are subject to the underlying copyrights of the subject in the picture (COM:SCREENSHOTS). Microsoft does allow screenshots of their products to be used in a more so-called 'liberal' manner: they can be used generally, but are subject to restrictions. These restrictions include, for example, the inability to use only portions of the image, to be pornographic, etc. Because of these restrictions, these images are not free. More specifically, they are not free enough to be used on Commons: Commons hosts files that be used by "by anyone, anytime, for any purpose" (COM:L). Essentially, since Microsoft forbids alteration of screenshots of their products, these screenshots can't be used "for any purpose". I hope this helps. WhoAteMyButter (talk) 01:16, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

More Questions

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Am I allowed to remove the speedy deletion tag, and then follow the deletion nomination instructions?

Is there a Help Desk on Commons where I can ask questions? Robert McClenon (talk) 00:18, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon: When Microsoft designed the underlying utilities and Operating System, the look and feel of the resulting interface was copyrighted by Microsoft as soon as (after 1989) it was fixed in a tangible medium of expression because that's when the US joined the Berne Convention and Microsoft is a US company based in Redmond, Washington State. Microsoft also employs a team of lawyers who have been copyrighting (for example) Windows 95 since 1995 and using various authenticity-verification schemes and the courts to maintain their monopoly. Your screenshots are derivative works of that interface, unless the parts of the interface used are below COM:TOO US. You may use the button labeled "Challenge speedy deletion" and "start a regular deletion request/discussion instead" to do the conversion in one click (after you have explained your reason). You are welcome to post to COM:HD, but I or one of the other helpers there will give you substantially the same answers.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:51, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, User:Jeff G.. I didn't see a button to "Challenge speedy deletion". I did see language to the effect that one can replace the speedy deletion with a regular deletion. I tried in Preview Mode to change the speedy deletion to a regular deletion, and I got an error message that said that I hadn't created a deletion discussion. I canceled out of that. Instead, I did a tool-aided Nominate for Deletion first. (I was about to write that I used Twinkle to nominate them for deletion, and then I realized that the tool probably isn't called Twinkle in Commons.) Then I removed the speedy deletion tag. My first instinct was that I shouldn't remove the speedy deletion tag, because removing a speedy deletion tag in the English Wikipedia is prohibited, and is also reverted by a bot. So I think that I have completed the changeover from speedy deletion to regular deletion. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:45, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Robert McClenon: You're welcome. I have opined at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Listing of C drive.png and Commons:Deletion requests/File:This PC with C highlight.png, mentioning WhoAteMyButter in the process. The button was between the big pink box and the "Summary" section header (wording from "{{int:filedesc}}") in special:diff/882258950.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:06, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]