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* {{VK}} the images distributed before 1989. Distributing the images as wanted posters constitutes publication, see [[Commons:Publication]] where a copy is viewed by a member of the public, other than the photographer's immediate family, as they need a copyright symbol to avoid public domain status. The correct license would be "PD-US-no notice" for images up to 1977 devoid of the copyright symbol, and those up to 1989 still required registration with the copyright office within 5 years of creation per "PD-US-1978-89", and I have never seen a mugshot in the registration database. Those created in 1990 up to the present can be deleted. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">talk</span>]]) 04:13, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
* {{VK}} the images distributed before 1989. Distributing the images as wanted posters constitutes publication, see [[Commons:Publication]] where a copy is viewed by a member of the public, other than the photographer's immediate family, as they need a copyright symbol to avoid public domain status. The correct license would be "PD-US-no notice" for images up to 1977 devoid of the copyright symbol, and those up to 1989 still required registration with the copyright office within 5 years of creation per "PD-US-1978-89", and I have never seen a mugshot in the registration database. Those created in 1990 up to the present can be deleted. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">talk</span>]]) 04:13, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
*:That's... not how fair use works. If the image was published elsewhere beforehand, or elsewhere and registered within 5 years (1978-89), then it is still copyrighted. [[User:Magog the Ogre|Magog the Ogre]] ([[User talk:Magog the Ogre|talk]]) ([[Special:Contributions/Magog the Ogre|contribs]]) 04:28, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
*:That's... not how fair use works. If the image was published elsewhere beforehand, or elsewhere and registered within 5 years (1978-89), then it is still copyrighted. [[User:Magog the Ogre|Magog the Ogre]] ([[User talk:Magog the Ogre|talk]]) ([[Special:Contributions/Magog the Ogre|contribs]]) 04:28, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
* {{VK}} You haven't even bothered to look over the images you've nominated for deletion. For example, the [[:File:Gary Ray Bowles.jpg]] file is a mug shot of him taken from the Florida Department of Corrections, which falls under PD-FLGov and has nothing to do with the FBI. [[User:Inexpiable|Inexpiable]] ([[User talk:Inexpiable|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 06:12, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

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Files found with Special:Search/FBI most wanted

As noted in several previous DRs (first, second, third, fourth), these photographs are used by the FBI as fair use. They are not shot by the FBI and should be deleted.

Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 01:23, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Keep the images distributed before 1989. Distributing the images as wanted posters constitutes publication, see Commons:Publication where a copy is viewed by a member of the public, other than the photographer's immediate family, as they need a copyright symbol to avoid public domain status. The correct license would be "PD-US-no notice" for images up to 1977 devoid of the copyright symbol, and those up to 1989 still required registration with the copyright office within 5 years of creation per "PD-US-1978-89", and I have never seen a mugshot in the registration database. Those created in 1990 up to the present can be deleted. --RAN (talk) 04:13, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    That's... not how fair use works. If the image was published elsewhere beforehand, or elsewhere and registered within 5 years (1978-89), then it is still copyrighted. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 04:28, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep You haven't even bothered to look over the images you've nominated for deletion. For example, the File:Gary Ray Bowles.jpg file is a mug shot of him taken from the Florida Department of Corrections, which falls under PD-FLGov and has nothing to do with the FBI. Inexpiable (talk) 06:12, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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