User talk:Mad4j

Images in BytePusher

You've recently uploaded a couple of images for use on the BytePusher page, but I'm not convinced that they have the correct copyright status for use on the wiki – this wiki hosts only public domain content, so images that are copyrighted in any way at all can't be hosted here. Normally, things like stills from videos aren't usable (unless you made the video personally yourself) because the video will be copyrighted (content is copyrighted by default, so the lack of a copyright notice isn't enough – things are only public domain if their author explicitly put them there).

One of the images is labelled as AI-generated, and I fear that AI-generated works might not be public domain; the problem is that AIs tend to plagiarise from unknown sources, and it is quite likely that some of them were copyrighted. (Note that you can't assign copyright for AI-generated images yourself because you didn't create them – the AI did.)

I'm currently planning to delete the images in question for copyright reasons, but wanted to discuss the situation with you first because I don't think it's as clear-cut as the usual copyright situations (in particular, do you have evidence that the images actually are public domain?). --ais523 07:22, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm noticed this message only now :-(

The video come from https://www.pexels.com/search/videos/funny%20cat%20piano/ that licensed its content as free to use without attribution. The image is my work (https://www.instagram.com/404noway/) and I own the commercial rights of the pictures.

Of course, this not means public-domain content.

It's ok for me to delete thumbs from Esolang (still mantain content on my GitHub page). I substituted the the thumbs with the icon of my BytePusher implementation.

Please, let me know if this is ok.

Thanks for the feedback Mad4j (talk)

It looks like the Pexels video is not public domain. Their license does have at least one condition, "Don't sell unaltered copies of a photo or video, e.g. as a poster, print or on a physical product without modifying it first.", even though it doesn't have an attribution requirement. It does seem like a reasonable source to use for writing a program, but it means that the program isn't public domain.

The way we normally handle this sort of thing on the wiki is to link to a version hosted on an external site, rather than hosting it here. I've edited the BytePusher page to say that the images aren't available due to licensing issues, but have retained the links to the programs. --ais523 10:51, 28 June 2025 (UTC)