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Line art, again
[edit]I've asked Jerimee (talk · contribs) on their Talk page concerning line art again, this time because a whole range of items were added to Category:Line art despite not having any lines anywhere in the art. I received the usual hand-waving response about how "meanings overlap and evolve". I know that you've also been frustrated, but I think it's time some sort of action is taken, because the line art category is becoming meaningless. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:10, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- I agree; and encourage you to report the matter at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:55, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
- Done. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:02, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
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Prototyperspective (talk) 12:04, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
Copyright of recorded introductions
[edit]Hi Pigsonthewing,
As part of our Wikifying a Conference project, @DrThneed and I were thinking of recommending people record a short voice introduction as part of having their photo taken. I just wanted to check on the copyright status of voice recordings; the person recording is the copyright owner, not the speaker? Is there a threshold of originality that a speaker would need to meet before their words became a copyrighted creative act? When I did oral history training some time ago I remember being told the copyright was owned by the interviewer, as the person capturing the work in a fixed medium, but I wanted to double-check in case there'd been some discussion of this in Commons circles—do point me to it if there has.
Cheers, Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 21:45, 29 January 2026 (UTC)
"the person recording is the copyright owner"00
- That's my understanding, from work with the BBC; providing the textual content isn't scripted.
- I'm not ware of discussion on Commons, but also not aware of any deletions resulting from such usage. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:26, 29 January 2026 (UTC)
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