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File:Afton, Iowa tornado April 26, 2024.jpg: Photographer confirms they own this image; stopped responding September 5 when asked about releasing under a free license. VRT ticket:2024102810013656
File:Hiram, Georgia snowfall December 2017 North American winter storm.jpg: Photographer tentatively identified and emailed October 1; no response. VRT ticket:2024102810013674

All these images were taken in the US after 1989, and therefore automatically protected by copyright at the instant of their creation unless ineligible for some reason. Unless anybody can provide any evidence of ineligibility for copyright, or permission from the respective copyright owners, we must delete all the files listed in this request per COM:PRP because as far as we can tell, they all are protected by copyright. --Rlandmann (talk) 22:46, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

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These images were all sourced from webpages of the US National Weather Service but are the work of third-party photographers. However, we have no evidence that any of these images are in the public domain or available under a free license.

For many years, hosting such images on the Commons was done in good faith under the rationale that:

public submissions to the NWS all entered the public domain and/or
all files hosted on NWS websites were in the public domain unless they carried a formal copyright notice

An extensive review of this rationale in 2024 revealed that neither of these beliefs held up to scrutiny. These findings were confirmed in an RfC conducted from August to October 2024.

Per COM:ONUS it is the responsibility of the person uploading an image to the Commons or anyone arguing for its retention here to provide evidence of permission from the copyright holder. For anyone interested in seeking the permission of the creators to retain these files, I offer, as a head start, the following notes left over from when I investigated them:

File:Afton, Iowa tornado April 26, 2024.jpg: Photographer confirms they own this image; stopped responding September 5 when asked about releasing under a free license. VRT ticket:2024102810013656
File:Hiram, Georgia snowfall December 2017 North American winter storm.jpg: Photographer tentatively identified and emailed October 1; no response. VRT ticket:2024102810013674

All these images were taken in the US after 1989, and therefore automatically protected by copyright at the instant of their creation unless ineligible for some reason. Unless anybody can provide any evidence of ineligibility for copyright, or permission from the respective copyright owners, we must delete all the files listed in this request per COM:PRP because as far as we can tell, they all are protected by copyright. --Rlandmann (talk) 22:46, 28 October 2024 (UTC)}} ~~~~

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DescriptionAfton, Iowa tornado April 26, 2024.jpg	English: A tornado captured near Afton, Iowa on April 26, 2024.
Date	26 April 2024
Source	https://www.weather.gov/dmx/April262024Tornadoes (dead link; archived)
Author	Dean Baron

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	14:59, 29 April 2024		2,016 × 1,512 (747 KB)	Tails Wx	Uploaded a work by Dean Baron from https://www.weather.gov/dmx/April262024Tornadoes with UploadWizard

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File:Afton, Iowa tornado April 26, 2024.jpg

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