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Seven 2006/2007 discussions organized as subpages, ignoringincl. comments added in 2014:

• ADRM
• Review of license templates
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• Ecoport copyleft
• Museums Bilder (in German)
• Explaining why Derivative Work and Commercial Use must be allowed
• Which countries' copyright laws determine copyright status?

Algerian laws

Hi y'all,

For the record, I started a discussion about to the PD-Algeria templates here Commons talk:Copyright rules by territory/Algeria. All help and advice is welcome there.

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 13:56, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

The License of This Logo is Questionable

File:UniZg.png

The uploader stated that this file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, however, the source website (the university's official website) does not claim that the logo is released to public domain. The logo is also unlikely to be created by the uploader. Benjamin Ceci (talk) 15:08, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Should we nominate for deletion and move to Wikipedia for fair use? Benjamin Ceci (talk) 15:09, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Zagreb University. MDCLXIX = 1669. When was this seal first used? Glrx (talk) 17:08, 26 September 2023 (UTC)