In Commons' c:COM:Public Domain Day, newly free files are undeleted on January 1st each year. This page is to track my efforts in a similar vein:
- deleted files that will become safe to undelete
- non-free files that will enter the public domain in the US ({{Out of copyright in}} is often used for this purpose, arguably incorrectly)
- See also
How I compile this list
editSearch subpages of WP:FFD and WP:PUF:
- https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?search=1929+-intitle%3A2024&prefix=Wikipedia%3AFiles+for+d&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns6=1
- https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?search=2025&prefix=Wikipedia%3AFiles+for+d&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns6=1
- https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Special:Search?search=2025&prefix=Wikipedia%3APossibly+unfree+&fulltext=Search+archives&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns6=1
- https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?search=1929&prefix=Wikipedia%3APossibly+unfree+&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns6=1
Search fair use images:
Queue
editTo search:
- 1928: done
- 1927: https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=100&offset=100&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns6=1&search=incategory%3A%22All+non-free+media%22+-incategory%3A%22Fair+use+images%22+1927+-insource%3A%22PD-US-suspect%22+-incategory%3A%22Possibly+free+images%22+-%22Original+publication%3A+unknown%22
- 1926
- 1925
- 1924
- 1923
- pre-1923
Unsure
editUseful templates: {{PD-US-suspect}}, {{maybe free media}}
- File:England Tour1899.jpg (created 1899), published in 1954 in UK, possibly first published earlier
- File:SadakichiHartmann.jpg (created 1914), by Howard D. Beach (d. 1954), not clear if ever published. Not this photo.
- File:Themoat.jpg [1] (created 1923) - art, likely published
- File:Painting by Louis Van den Eynde.jpg (created 1924), first publication date unclear
2021 (works from 1925)
edit2022 (works from 1926)
edit- File:Beecher Hill.jpg [2] - art, publication unclear, and the source now puts the creation date at 1930-1939
- File:Birth-of-the-Blues-.jpg [3] - the issue is that while the music may be from 1926, it is unclear which edition this cover art is from
- File:GertrudeEderle.jpg [4] - photo, first publication unclear
- File:Ram Ram O.jpg [5] - the question is whether this cover art (including coloration?) is present in the 1926 edition and thus under 1926 copyright
- File:Parsons, Davies, Beltran Masses, Chaplin, Valentino.jpg - private photo, publication unknown
- File:Kermit and Ted roosevelt.jpg [6] - private photo, publication unknown
- File:Otto Dix Sy von Harden.jpg
- File:Barnes portrait by de Chirico.jpg
2023 (works from 1927)
edit- File:1927NYYankees5.jpg
- File:1927 Rockland Trust board after winning vote on kanagroo banking 10.5 X 8.jpg - 1927 photo, source unclear, possibly never published
- File:Fauset,Hughes, Hurston 1927.jpg [7] [8] - private photo from personal papers. Searching the NYPL caption indicates a 1983 publication, but it may have been first published earlier. A Flickr post suggests it is from the Carl Van Vechten Collection but it does not appear there on LOC.gov.
- File:Dining car interior c 1927.jpg
- File:The-Big-Raspers-At-Ai.jpg
- File:Ruth Brown Snyder mugshot.jpg
- File:Pamirid.JPG and File:Predominantly turanid-Pamirid uzbeks.JPG - unverified claims that these images first appeared in "Ярхо А.И. Краткий обзор изучения турецких народностей Средней Азии. 1927"
- File:With Warner.jpg (photo)
2024 (works from 1928)
edit- File:Delage-at-Montlhery,.jpg - [9]
- File:Rome-Grand-Prix,-1928.jpg - [10]
- File:Farm-equipment-elmore-county.jpg - [11]
- File:St.Hubertus Painting.jpg - painting by "Karl Schmeltz", possibly never published
- File:Stultz and Levine after returning from Havana in 1928.jpg - [12]
- File:Wilmer Lower Stultz 1928.png
- Special:Undelete/File:Boom Town.jpg (deleted version) - [13]
- File:1928 Hilda Runciman.jpg - photo, publication unclear [14]
- File:Celtic grounded.jpg
- File:AlEmanuelSmith.png
- File:RecoveredMatisse'.jpg - Matisse "Odalisque" / "Oriental Woman Seated on a Floor", possibly never published
- File:Ruth Brown Snyder.jpg
- File:Gabriel Fernández Ledesma Terrible Disaster 1928.jpg
- File:James Joyce Simon Fieldhouse.jpg - a drawing based on this photograph, taken in 1928, first publication unknown
- File:Uncle Tom and Uncle George.jpg
- File:Anita Loos and John Emerson by Edward Steichen.JPG
Likely no notice and/or not renewed
editFuture
edit2025 (works from 1929)
edit- File:William Wedgwood Benn.jpg
- File:Zoe Mandrea born Balcescu.jpg (unpublished work, creator died in 1954)
- File:Gold 1929.jpg
- File:Steamboat-willie-title2.jpg
- File:Boozer Pitts 1929.png
- File:Hastings Lees-Smith.jpg
- File:George Bohler.png
- File:Lawrence McPhee Ball State.jpg
- File:Al Weston.png
- File:Pandora's Box (film).png
- File:1929 Dora West.jpg
- File:Bricklayer by August Sander.jpg
- File:Map of CAR-Chad in 1929.jpg
- File:Map of Niger in 1929.jpg
Unsure
edit- Special:Undelete/File:Bronko Nagurski.jpg
- File:Tommy-Johnson pre-1923.png
- File:Picabia Hera 2.JPG
- File:Comerford-Frank-D.tif
- File:Openshaw1929.jpg
- File:Sally192999.jpg
- File:Sally1929HH.jpg
2026 (works from 1930)
edit- File:JEFLincolnSyracuse.jpg (likely PD-no notice)
2027 (works from 1931)
editFar future
edit- File:Thelake.jpg (art from 1958)
Past undeletions
editFiles undeleted because they had become free in the US:
- File:Linear counterpoint from Stravinsky's Octet.mid (2019)
- File:Linear counterpoint from Stravinsky's Octet.png (2019)
- File:On the Banks of the Wabash FilmPoster.jpeg (2019)
- File:Back cover of Nasci by El Lissitzky 1924.jpg (2020)
- File:NanaAli.jpg (2020)
- File:Club House de Cercle de la Voile de Paris à Meulan.jpg (2021)
- File:Eileen Sharp Gauguin.jpg (2021)
- File:Harry Pollitt 1925.jpg (2021)
- File:Largo, Florida Map Mar 6,1925.jpg (2021)
- File:Alex Graham, Brentford FC footballer, 1925.jpg (2021)
- File:Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925 film).jpg (2021)
- File:'The Port of Marseille', painting by Oskar Kokoschka, 1925, Musée Cantini de Marseille.jpg (2021)
- File:Smeck-pastimes.jpg (2022)
- File:Edward Selig Salomon.gif (2022)
- File:Monetgraveplaque.jpg (2022)
- File:Sacco vanzetti dedham courthouse.gif (2023)
- File:125 Jazz Breaks Glenn Miller 1927.jpg (2023)
- File:Monumentul Unirii din 1918.jpg (2023) (do not move to Commons)
- File:Monumentul Unirii din Iaşi5.jpg (2023) (do not move to Commons)
- File:Map of route of 1769 Portola expedition, from San Diego to San Luis Obispo.png (2023)
- File:"WE" Author's Autograph Page.jpg (2023)
- File:Melrose Bros. 125 Jazz Breaks 1927 Glenn Miller.jpg (2023)
- File:DorsetCottage.jpg (2023)
- File:Charles Masterman (The Times).jpg (2023)
- File:WE Title page 1927.jpg (2023)
- File:JEFEricssonMemorial.jpg (2022/2023)
- File:Nepenthes mollis.PNG (2024)
- File:Nepenthes sanguinea.gif (2024)
- File:Nepenthes pilosa.gif (2024)
- File:Dawson Williams.png (2024)
- File:JEFDiscoverers3.jpg (2024)
- File:Standard Fireworks 1928.jpg (2024)
- File:StrandReverentWooing.JPG (2024)
Not undeleted
edit- File:Mugshot of Anthony Chebatoris.png - already on Commons at File:Anthony Chebatoris mugshot, 1928.png
- File:Jozef Pilsudski na Kasztance.jpg - already on Commons at File:Kossak Józef Piłsudski on Kasztanka.jpg