Talk:Bill Gold

Category deletion nomination

Clarityfiend (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Tidy

I've been a bit perturbed by the lay out of this page as it did look like one long list with some pictures added for some timne. Hopefully I've made it look tidier. However it could probably do with another poster where Mystic River is and then that can be moved further down. Hopefully Nyguide can put one in as they think fit? (Quentin X (talk) 13:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC))

Fair Use of Bill Gold's Posters per Wikipedia policies

A movie poster designer is granted free and unlimited use of his own images for informational and self-promotional purposes. Each of the movie posters found in the page Bill Gold meet the criteria and policies of Wikipedia as stated on their respective pages, i.e.

1. Their usage is considered fair use in United States copyright law,

2. They're used for a purpose that can't be fulfilled by free material (text or images, existing or to be created),

3. The usage of this non-free media complies with the above and the rest of the Non-free content criteria, and

4. The posters have a valid rationale indicating why their usage would be considered fair use within Wikipedia policy and US law.

According to Wikipedia policy:

Other non-free content—including all copyrighted images, audio and video clips, and other media files that lack a free content license—may be used on the English Wikipedia only where all 10 of the following criteria are met.

1. No free equivalent. Movie posters cannot be replaced by a free version that has the same effect. and cannot be adequately conveyed by text without using the non-free content at all.

2. Respect for commercial opportunities. Display of a designer’s movie posters is not used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media.

3a. Minimal usage. Bill Gold created a wide breadth of iconic and memorable work over 60 years. No one item can convey equivalent significant information.

3b. Minimal extent of use. The entire poster must be seen to be conveyed properly as art; a portion will not suffice. Low- rather than high-resolution/fidelity/bit rate have been used This also applies to the copy in the File: namespace.

4. Previous publication. Each of these posters has been published or publicly displayed outside Wikipedia.

5. Content. Each poster meets general Wikipedia content standards and is encyclopedic.

6. Media-specific policy. The material meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy. For example, images meet Wikipedia:Image use policy.

7. One-article minimum. The posters are used in at least one article.

8. Contextual significance. The posters are used only because their presence significantly increases readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding.

9. Restrictions on location. The posters are used only in articles (not disambiguation pages), and only in article namespace, subject to exemptions. Image description page. The image or media description page contains the following:

a. Identification of the source of the material, supplemented, where possible, with information about the artist, publisher and copyright holder; this is to help determine the material's potential market value. See: Wikipedia:Citing sources#When uploading an image.

b. A copyright tag that indicates which Wikipedia policy provision is claimed to permit the use. For a list of image copyright tags, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Non-free content.

c. The name of each article (a link to each article is also recommended) in which fair use is claimed for the item, and a separate, specific fair-use rationale for each use of the item, as explained at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. The rationale is presented in clear, plain language and is relevant to each use. Nyguide (talk) 13:51, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Moonwalker

Is this film really "ground breaking"? If so in what sense? The studio didn't see fit to release it into theaters in the country of origin, and many of the films listed would be considered far more groundbreaking than Moonwalker. It's own page says it's more a collection of music videos, instead of an actual film, and recieved mixed reviews upon release. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.63.200.102 (talk) 02:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Olga Kaljakin

According to her page, and "the untouchables" page she designed the movie poster for that movie... why then is Bill credited for this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.194.127.36 (talk) 15:54, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

A Clockwork Orange

I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been brought up yet, but Gold doesn't seem to have designed the poster for this movie. It's a well-spread misconception, unfortunately, but he apparently only did some minor changes to the lettering, while most of the work was done by Philip Castle. There's video proof of this in an interview with Castle where he shows his early sketches and tells the whole story about that poster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBGNI6JXrII. Desdenova (talk) 01:35, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Sources

So, outside of digging my way through movie books - which I can of course - I find myself out of ideas for finding proper sources for the work of someone like Mr. Gold - who worked so long as an artist, yet I can find reliable secondary sources for the merest handful of his works, of which there have been many, in the decades that he was active. Challenger l (talk) 09:53, 23 May 2018 (UTC)