Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel.jpg

File:Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel.jpg

As Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel has never been in FBI custody, there's no reason to believe this—or any of the miscellaneous disparate photos used on his wanted poster—are the works of the FBI or US federal government. (FWIW, this looks most like a passport photo, the copyright of which would be vested in the photographer commissioned by Patel, and to which the FBI would've had ready access for their purposes.) Fourthords | =Λ= | 12:48, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

This is a w:WP:POINTY nomination, created because I randomly cited this image as one of many, many examples showing that FBI photos of suspects are PD-USGOV at Wikimedia -- in response, User has nominated the single image I cited, when their objection is actually to our policies that acknowledge FBI suspect photos may be reproduced under PD-USGOV. The intellectually honest move is to withdraw this nomination and replace it with a proposal to revise our longstanding policies. Feoffer (talk) 14:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

{{PD-USGov-FBI}} says, "This image or file is a work of a Federal Bureau of Investigation employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties." This isn't an FBI-created photo, as Patel has never been a suspect in federal custody to have had a booking photo taken. This is the FBI using a third party's photo under fair use, which is their prerogative, but we at Commons have to respect the original creator's copyright. Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:07, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

You're imagining a "right" that does not exist. Copyright means the US federal govt limits who can publish an image -- and that's ALL it means. So when the US federal Gov asserts its right to create and publish content for public distribution, copyright does not apply and it enters the public domain. You can't use copyright to limit the speech of a court or a congressional committee or a federal agency. Feoffer (talk) 16:58, 16 November 2023 (UTC)