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Done. --Don (talk) 15:09, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Christmas lights copyright discussion, to be continued here. This page is for evaluating the photo.
It actually does; no one's ever enforced it. The day will soon come in which some homeowner wins a lawsuit against the newspapers that so freely publish those pictures this time of year; that will be a day long remembered. Daniel Case (talk) 00:39, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Or maybe it will be jury-nullified, like the Connecticut statute criminalizing adultery, which a prosecutor attempted to enforce a few years ago, and will become a minor footnote to history. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:09, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
-@ Daniel Case - a lawsuit over Christmas Lights on public display in a public event on public property the is designed as a free event for the public that requires the lights to participate, it will NEVER happen, ever. It would have a chilling effect on the holiday in general. These lights are created to engage people and have for decades, this site does not make law, nor do you have any civil citations of examples showing litigation from photos of peoples Christmas lights. --Don (talk) 02:27, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Comment US law states clearly that "works which are permanently located in a public place" these are temporary displays. as such freedom of panorama does in fact allow use. The law continues "The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not include the right to prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations of the work, if the building in which the work is embodied is located in or ordinarily visible from a public place. — 17 U.S. Code § 120(a)" --Don (talk) 22:31, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@WPPilot: Not so fast. Note that the language you quoted specifically applies to copyright "in an architectural work", i.e. buildings. Or, as the statute itself says: "An 'architectural work' is the design of a building as embodied in any tangible medium of expression, including a building, architectural plans, or drawings." This is in keeping with the traditional exclusion of "useful articles" from copyright protection in the U.S.; buildings, after all, serve the very useful function of sheltering human activity. Lighting displays, like statues, sculptures and murals, are pure embodiments of artistic expression, no matter their quality or whether an amateur or a professional did it. Look around here and see if you can find any pictures of Cloud Gate—you can't. It may be the most photographed thing in Chicago, but we can't have any of those pictures here because FoP in the U.S. doesn't allow them to be licensed by the photographer as free images (Anish Kapoor could allow a few of them, but I've heard he's a real dick about it when asked). Daniel Case (talk) 00:51, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Did you check recently to confirm your claim about the absence of Cloud Gate photos on this site? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:03, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Shoot edit conflict. The site has enough photos of Christmas light exhibits that your "Case" no pun intended has little weight and is far to focused. Furthermore it makes every Christmas photo on the site a candidate for removal. That is not the intent of the civil code, nor federal law regarding the public exhibit of lights on public property during a public event. If you do care to remove all Christmas light related photos you have a LOT of work ahead, that should keep you busy well past the new year. Cheers & bahhh humbug! --Don (talk) 01:19, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

THIS is/was a live, 360 degree, 1 hour series of videos on You Tube I created with the 360 camera. Enjoy it now before someone tells You Tube this is a copyright violation.. --Don (talk) 01:48, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel, you also might want to look into Category:The Gates (installation) and other subcategories under Category:Christo, if you really think artwork that's temporarily displayed in public places in the United States cannot be legally photographed and is likely to subject this website to a successful lawsuit. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:41, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You can also tag almost the entire contest of the month... --Don (talk) 01:51, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Mild   Support - Thanks for clearing the freedom of panorama stuff up (seemingly). The sharpness of this photo at full size is not perfect, and if someone has a method for increasing the quality of the photo further, great, but it's such a fun photo at full-page size and I really enjoy the reflections. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:33, 21 December 2016 (UTC):[reply]
  •   Comment Thanks Ikan, I am no Photoshop master and would welcome anyone that would like to take a crack at cleaning this up, it is fun and in fact a similar photo is on the cover of the local paper.. --Don (talk) 23:51, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Comment -- @ Ikan, Jee, Martin &Cart the above votes were for version 2, but, I have to agree with you so I re sampled the background at a much lower sample rate to remove the "Blue" and I think you will agree this is a few better pic. Cart perhaps I could get you to reconsider your vote? --Don (talk) 07:48, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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