File talk:Daniel Webster Jones.jpg

PD image

In my opinion this image s Public Domain since the subject died in 1915, eight years before the 1923 copyright laws applied. Tony the Marine (talk) 20:45, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

It depends on when the photo was first published, not when it was taken. For example, if it was meant as a family photo which wasn't published before 2003, then the copyright expires 120 years after the photo was taken. He died in 1915, but the photo could have been taken decades earlier (the uploader provided no date) so that we also are past the 120-year limit.

It is often very difficult to show that a picture is in the public domain in the United States. A few years ago, there was a discussion about the matter on Commons: no one could prove that Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci was in the public domain in the United States (see c:Commons:Village pump/Archive/2015/10#Template:PD-old-100 and US copyrights), but everyone still assumed that the painting was in the public domain in the United States. If you can't prove the public domain status of one of the most famous paintings in the world, then how can you do that with a random photo like this? It's probably PD (either as published before 1923 or as not published before 2003), so I suggest that we retag it as PD and restore the full-size copy. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:43, 25 May 2018 (UTC)