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21 Aug, 2019
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File:Fort Leonard Wood EF3 Tornado 31 Dec 2010.jpg

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Reason for the nomination:

This file originates on this page of the US National Weather Service. However, the creator of the image is ambiguous because it (and all the other storm damage photos on the page) are all collectively attributed "These photos are provided by National Weather Service storm surveys, as well as from some of our media partners. Many thanks to those who provided pictures following the event". None of these media partners or any other third party are specifically named, and no distinction is made between images created by National Weather Service personnel and those sourced from third parties. It was taken on December 31, 2010 in Missouri.

The same photo appears on pages 4 and 123 of the NOAA publication Storm Data, Volume 52, number 12 (December 2010) (available on demand from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/sd/sd.html ) again without specific attribution.

As employees of the US federal government, any works created by NWS employees in the course of their duties are ineligible for copyright and are in the public domain. (And because this photo was taken on a US Army base, Fort Leonard Wood, noting here that the same would apply if the anonymous photographer were a member of the Army, on-duty)

Other than that, images created in the United States by "media partners" and most other third parties are generally protected by copyright.

Without knowing at least who took this photo, we cannot know its copyright status. And if it were ever under copyright, we have no evidence of permission that this copyright was ever transferred away to put the image in the public domain.

At different times, various regional offices of the National Weather Service have held contests or other public outreach exercises that have made release into the public domain a condition of participation. However, there is no evidence that connects this image with any one of those initiatives.

According to the National Weather Service disclaimer linked at the bottom of the webpage, "The information on National Weather Service (NWS) Web pages are in the public domain, unless specifically noted otherwise." No particular form for such a notation is specified or required in the disclaimer, and a wide range of attribution styles is observed on past and present weather.gov pages. These range from very explicit, formal notices with the copyright (©) symbol, through to "Courtesy of ..." and "Photo by ..." notations.

Given that weather.gov pages have hosted thousands of third-party images of a period of over 20 years and across over 100 regional offices, no special significance can be attached to the fact that not all of these notations share the same wording or format. Indeed, it would be extraordinary if they did.

Taken together, all of the above creates significant doubt under the precautionary principle as to whether this image is in the public domain.

I am not suggesting that it is necessarily protected by copyright; I'm saying that considering all the evidence together, we simply do not know whether it is or isn't, which means we must delete it.

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{{subst:delete2|image=File:Fort Leonard Wood EF3 tornado 31 Dec 2010.jpg|reason=This file originates on this page of the US National Weather Service. However, the creator of the image is ambiguous because it (and all the other storm damage photos on the page) are all collectively attributed "These photos are provided by National Weather Service storm surveys, as well as from some of our media partners. Many thanks to those who provided pictures following the event". None of these media partners or any other third party are specifically named, and no distinction is made between images created by National Weather Service personnel and those sourced from third parties. It was taken on December 31, 2010 in Missouri.

Other than that, images created in the United States by "media partners" and most other third parties are generally protected by copyright.

Taken together, all of the above creates significant doubt under the precautionary principle as to whether this image is in the public domain.

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Summary

Description	English: Image of an EF3 tornado that passed near Fort Leonard Wood during a tornado outbreak towards the end of 2010 in the Central Mississippi Valley.
Date	31 December 2013
Source	http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=event_2010dec31_pictures
Author	National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Springfield, Missouri

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Original public domain rationale

This image is in the public domain because it was stored on the web servers of the U.S. National Weather Service. NWS-created images are automatically public domain in the U.S. since the NWS is a part of the U.S. government. However, the NWS sites also host non-NWS images which have been submitted by individuals: these are generally shown as "Courtesy of ...". Such images have explicitly been released to the public domain by the copyright owner as part of the upload process.

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Thus, all images on NWS servers are public domain (including "Courtesy of ..." and “Photo by ...” images) unless specifically stated otherwise through a copyright (©) watermark.

*A deletion discussion in November 2023 ruled that Getty Images on the web servers of NWS, are to be considered copyrighted, even without a copyright (©) watermark and are the sole exception to this rule.

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