Image talk:Chernobyl Disaster.jpg

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The source would be the photographer or copyright holder. Another site that is distributing a copyvio image is not a source. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 20:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Historic photograph of importance which is impossible to find a free replacement, the source would be either an unknown Russian journalist or by an Russian authority agent at that time, either way it qualifies as fair use. By the way, I removed the no source tag again because you used it incorrectly. If you want to contest copyvio then please use the right tag (e.g. {{ifd}}) and follow the right procedures (even for nosource tag, you have to notify the uploader, me in this case, see the inline text in the nosource tag). Hunter 18:07, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Process issues aside, our policy is that we delete apparently copyrighted images where we can't identify a source regardless of their possible value to the project. If someone wants to do some research to find out the true status of the photo, I'd be OK with that even if the outcome is a little dodgy. But in the absence of a genuine effort to identify the origin, the photo should be deleted. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 15:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I did try to locate the source of this image, tried to search keywords such as Chernobyl Disaster / Chernobyl / Chernobyl nuclear disaster in google image, but the results are disappointing, only some gallery sites or sites similar to this shows the image, which I did try to read through the comments in those pages, but with no luck of locating the true source.

In my course of searching, I did find some image with identifiable source (from some news agency sites), but they are usually of lower quality or black and white. If you insist that this image cannot be used in Wikipedia then I would happy to replace the image with those lower quality ones. Hunter 13:05, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Would the person who took this photo even be alive? Look how close it was taken... and probably not long after the event. If they were not wearing hazard suites, the people in the helicopter must have got servere radiation poisoning.

Yes, most of the people in those helicopters died within a few weeks.

[edit] Surely it's public domain anyway?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't all the communist countries specifically disavow the notion of copyright as contrary to their collectivist ideology? Wouldn't any photo taken by a Soviet employee therefore automatically be in the public domain? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.16.117.32 (talk) 02:39:38, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

And another thing... I don't believe it was possible for a anyone to hold copyrights in the Soviet Union, but even if I'm wrong, the copyright for this would have undoubtably belonged to the Soviet government. There were no privately owned news choppers in the Soviet Union. Whoever took it can only have been part of the rescue effort, or a journalist working for a state news agency. Those circumstances would put it in the public domain, EVEN IN THE USA. (Like all the NASA images for example.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.16.117.32 (talk) 21:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

You're wrong. The USSR joined the Universal Copyright Convention in 1973. And there's no "even in the USA" about it. The US government is fairly unusual in that its works are PD; most other governments retain copyright. FiggyBee 03:15, 20 October 2007 (UTC)