File:Photograph of the 2010 Fort Leonard Wood tornado.png

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Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale

Description

A photograph of the 2010 Fort Leonard Wood tornado.

Author or
copyright owner

National Weather Service (presumably)

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

Original publication: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=event_2010dec31_pictures

Immediate source: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/sgf/events/December%2031%202010%20Tornadoes/FtLW2.png

Date of publication

December 31, 2010

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

2010 New Year's Eve tornado outbreak

Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)

A single historical photograph to show the 2010 Fort Leonard Wood tornado.

Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1)

A historical photograph which cannot be reproduced without breaking copyright rules.

Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)

A single, low-resolution photograph of the tornado.

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)

A single, low-resolution photograph, which was used by the National Weather Service (NWS) on their respective webpage.

Per the NWS disclaimer, "The information on National Weather Service Web servers and Web sites is in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the public."
This photograph appears on a web site and on the web servers of the National Weather Service.
There are discrepancies (listed below) for the attribution/copyright status of the image. Some indications are that it is copyrighted while others indicate it is free-to-use.

This image may or may not be free to use and was uploaded under the non-free image guidelines as a precaution.

Other information

Wikimedia Commons Deletion Discussion/Investigation Conclusion: "We only have circumstancial evidence at best that this might be a work by a federal government employee, but that's not good enough for our reusers. Usually there would be attribution that it was a federal government employee, and so a reluctant delete since copyright status is unknown." - Wikimedia Commons Administrator Abzeronow

Attribution / Copyright Discrepancies:

Per the NWS disclaimer, "The information on National Weather Service Web servers and Web sites is in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the public."

This photograph appears on a web site and on the web servers of the National Weather Service with no attribution notes.

This photograph appears in the December 2010 edition of Storm Data (Volume 52, Number 12), an official publication of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, on page 4 and 123, with no attribution notes.

The photograph was used in this 2019 article by TornadoTalk, with the attribution of, "Image Via Storm Data". The article was written by meteorologist Jen Narramore.

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of 2010 New Year's Eve tornado outbreak//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_the_2010_Fort_Leonard_Wood_tornado.pngtrue

Licensing

This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
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If this tag does not accurately describe this image, please replace it with an appropriate one.

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current	00:03, 18 November 2024		387 × 257 (95 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	20:45, 16 November 2024	No thumbnail	1,788 × 1,188 (1,018 KB)	WeatherWriter (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free file using File Upload Wizard

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2010 New Year's Eve tornado outbreak

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