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File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpeg

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This file was initially tagged by De728631 as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: This is not a public domain NASA image but courtesy of the New Mexico State University. Non-free image. http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/graphics.html Uploaded 3 years ago, we can afford a proper DR. Yann (talk) 20:32, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete: I suggest this may be a non-free image so it should be moved to any local wikis, such as the enwiki, that allow non-free image for deceased persons if no other image is available. It is also available here and listed as Photo courtesy of NMSU Library Archives and Special Collections where a search bring this result which dates the image as 1928. If it was published without a copyright notice it may well be in the public domain. Ww2censor (talk) 21:37, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request: If the final decision is to delete this photo, please hold off until at least a few days from now, since PLUTO is current news this week. Thanks. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 15:01, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:12, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: Failed to see previous keep of identical image. Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:00, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpeg

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PD tag is incorrect. See the Talk page for a 1930 and a 1965 publication with copyright. Choor monster (talk) 14:28, 11 August 2015 (UTC) Copied over from the Talk page:[reply]

  • The photograph was published by 1965 at the latest. See The Search for Planet X (1965) by Tony Simon. You can look through a copy for sale here [1]. (You have to click through the images to get to the relevant image.)
  • The photograph was published in 1930. See Alden P. Amgagnac, "How They Trailed a New Planet", Popular Science Monthly, (June 1930) pp. 27–28,123–125. It's on page 28.

Choor monster (talk) 14:46, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep — The background on the use of {{PD-US-no notice}} can be found at Commons:Deletion requests/File:ClydeTombaugh2.gif. Choor monster is correct, this photo does indeed appear on page 28 (also here) of the June 1930 issue of Popular Science Monthly (BTW, excellent work on tracking that down Choor monster). That issue was both published with notice and registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (registration no. "B 76212"). To continue to use {{PD-US-no notice}} it would really be best if we actually could point to an actual pre-1977 publication without notice.

However, copyrighted works first published in the U.S. from 1923 to 1963 were required to renew their copyright registration in their 28th year. Since a copyright renewal has to be sometime in the 28th year, the renewal would be in the copyright records for the original copyright date plus 27 years or 28 years (also 29 years since there are a few periods in the past where the Copyright Office was slow in processing renewals). I've performed a careful manual search of the renewal records for 1957, 1958, and 1959. No renewal was recorded for registration "B 76212" or any other issue of Popular Science Monthly magazine in these years. This is consistent with UPenn's research which says that the no issues of Popular Science were ever renewed.

So, as long as this photo was never separately registered and renewed (and my search found no evidence of such) this photo is now in the public domain due to lack of renewal of the June 1930 issue of Popular Science Monthly and File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpeg can use {{PD-US not renewed}}. —RP88 (talk) 15:17, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that's great. Thank you! Choor monster (talk) 15:27, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I've updated the photo to use {{PD-US not renewed}} and added details regarding the lack of renewal to the permission field. —RP88 (talk) 15:37, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Kept, Per above. Green Giant (talk) 15:44, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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