Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/$5 U.S. Banknote

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 14 Mar 2013 at 09:17:35 (UTC)

Reason: High quality, good EV. The first small-size (modern-era) $5 United States Note printed.
Articles in which this image appears: United States Note
United States five-dollar bill
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Image by Godot13).

Support as nominator --Godot13 (talk) 09:17, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I kinda doubt you own this bill, it would be worth A LOT, so you're probably not the person who scanned it? So where did you download it, that's address is what you put for "Source" not you. — raeky t 12:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Under Author it credits the BEP and the Smithsonian Institution (where it currently resides). And I am the source: I did physically handle the note and create the image myself.--Godot13 (talk) 15:23, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my talk page, I think some wording changes and maybe an OTRS ticket will clear it up. These are wonderful images, can't wait for more to be uploaded. ;-) — raeky t 15:41, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS ticket requested for the future.--Godot13 (talk) 23:40, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Let's not have this devolve into infighting... focus on the image / sourcing

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Another case of bureaucratic time waste IMO. The user has personally created this work and unless there is evidence to the contrary, we do not need any OTRS, and this is not the place to discuss this... --Muhammad(talk) 15:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Considering that this bill is worth tens of thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and is in the possession of a museum, and images of it is not available for download on the museum's website, asking where the source is for WP:V is not out of the question. Take your bitterness about your licencing issues elsewhere and stop disrupting other nominations. — raeky t 17:29, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support, very nice. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 08:32, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 11:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support now. J Kadavoor J e e 16:03, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Very nice. Rreagan007 (talk) 06:08, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand what exactly is being released as CC-BY-SA. The scan? Since I gather this was scanned in the United States, which doesn't recognize sweat of the brow copyright, the scanner has no copyright to license. Is there derivative work? Chick Bowen 01:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- As a Smithsonian employee, wouldn't these images be public domain? — raeky t 03:05, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So I understand, does the PD Currency supersede the need for CC-BY-SA? My intent was not to suggest that I had copyright but rather to make every effort to make sure attribution of the image as part of the Smithsonian Collection (as entered in Permission) was followed. If this is incorrect I will amend as directed. Thanks--Godot13 (talk) 03:24, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS ticket received and attached.--Godot13 (talk) 03:57, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is no harm in releasing uncopyrightable work, but it's probably meaningless, so in that sense, yes, the PD-currency would be the only actionable status. You can and should request attribution, and the Wikimedia projects themselves will of course follow that request, but there isn't a lot you can do to enforce it in the rest of the world. The question Raeky is bringing up is a separate one, whether anything you do at work is automatically public domain because you're a federal employee; my sense is that that depends on your particular status: our article says, "more than two-thirds of the Smithsonian's workforce of some 6,300 persons are employees of the federal government," suggesting that the other third is not. This can get very complicated; I myself am legally a state employee for some purposes and not for others, and you may be in a similar situation. Anyway, support, there's no significant problem here. Chick Bowen 04:16, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I am not one of the Federal employees, so I will use the PD money-US template. Understanding that the material is uncopyrightable, I only include the release as an extra effort to have it properly attributed to the Smithsonian (per discussions with them about posting it to Wikipedia/Wikimedia).

Support Myself, and feel free to nominate as many of these wonderful scans as you want. ;-) — raeky t 04:21, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and there are many more to come..;-)--Godot13 (talk) 04:48, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]