- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 03:20, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
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Lovesick Blues edit
- ... that Hank Williams' (pictured) cover version of "Lovesick Blues" combined elements from previous versions by Emmet Miller and Rex Griffin?
- Reviewed: Josef Knubel
Improved to Good Article status by GDuwen (talk). Self nominated at 19:49, 8 December 2014 (UTC).
How confident are we that the image is PD? The original is in the Getty Archives and listed as rights under Michale Ochs, the creator: http://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?phrase=hank+williams&family=editorial Other than the image concerns: the article was promoted to GA on 12/8; it is long enough; the references (Harwood, Jennings) are not available on-line, but will AGF; the hook is interesting. Can we get somebody to confirm the Public Domain on the image? —Gaff ταλκ 22:57, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
- So says Getty, but as Gram Parsons would say, "the story isn't so". The file is a cropped version of this one. Long story short, back in those days film and recording studios would distribute pictures promoting their artists that would appear in newspapers, publicity, etc. Before 77', the copyright law established that you should include in "close proximity on the copies": 1- An encircled C, the word copyright or cop. 2- The year. 3-The copyright holder.
- As you can see in the original file, the copyright notice is missing. Since this work is from 1948, and it was published without a copyright notice (you can read further about it on the file's description page) it is PD. Probably the Michael Ochs Archives just have a physical copy of the picture that they uploaded. You can see here an example of how it should have been done (check the lower-left corner).--GDuwenTell me! 19:42, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
- Another example, you can see that Getty also claims rights to this poster, while as you can read on its Commons description page, the copyright has not been renewed, therefore PD. (see he Getty link)--GDuwenTell me! 19:47, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
