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February 1

Unspecified cellphone GUI

Please see File:Emergency alert.jpg, a cellphone (model not specified) displaying an alert sent out by a US federal government agency a few minutes after the 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake. Without knowing the model of cell phone, is it possible to determine how much of the display is the work of the cellphone's software's manufacturer, versus how much is {{PD-NWS}}? I assumed it was the latter, but someone submitted an OTRS that failed to provide permission, so clearly someone's expecting it to be the former. Nyttend (talk) 23:16, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

That looks like an Android status bar at the top, and as such it's probably under the Apache 2 License and conceivably ok for Wikipedia. See Android Open Source Project. 173.228.123.121 (talk) 08:54, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure any interface elements in there meet the threshold of originality to be copyrighted in the U.S. Of course the only way to know this for sure is to get a court ruling. Realistically, there's not the slightest chance that anyone who might own a possible copyright to any elements of the image would sue over it or even file a takedown request. If the "freedom or death" crowd make noises, just slap a fair use template on it. --47.157.122.192 (talk) 10:11, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

No way in hell that would pass under NFCC rules. It's also on commons, so you can't simply slap a template on it anyway. You'd need to upload it here and delete it on commons. Nil Einne (talk) 13:13, 5 February 2018 (UTC)