File:Waterboarding a captured North Vietnamese soldier near Da Nang.jpeg
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Summary
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This image depicts a North Vietnamese POW being waterboarded by two U.S soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier. Although the Washington Post described waterboarding as common, the publicity led to one of the U.S. soldiers being court-martialed for his role in the torture. | ||
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| Source |
The immediate source for the image is "The interrogator’s soul" by Shane O'Mara (neuroscientist). The image was published on 21 January 1968 on the cover of the Washington Post, without a copyright notice for UPI, the image's copyright holder. It was also published in the following newspapers that had no copyright notice:
(All credit goes to User:Toohool for discovering these uses!) | ||
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21 January 1968 | ||
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| Additional information | Based on the precedent of File:Execution of Nguyen Van Lem.jpg, which was kept at FFD, "Copyright was therefore forfeited per section 9 of the Copyright Act of 1909, which required that notice of copyright be affixed to every published copy." |
Licensing
 | This non-U.S. work was published in 1929 or later, but is in the public domain in the United States because it was simultaneously published (within 30 days) in the U.S. and in its source country (Vietnam) and is in the public domain in the U.S. as a U.S. work (no copyright registered, or not renewed).
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 | Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons. The country of origin and copyright status in Vietnam are not known. |
| This file will not be in the public domain in both its home country and the United States until January 1, 2045 and should not be transferred to Wikimedia Commons until that date, as Commons requires that images be free in the source country and in the United States. |
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| current | 14:52, 19 February 2022 | 2,000 × 1,252 (1.32 MB) | Buidhe (talk | contribs) | This image depicts a North Vietnamese POW being waterboarded by two two U.S soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier. Although the Washington Post described waterboarding as common, the publicity led to one of the U.S. soldiers being court-martialed for his role in the torture. The immediate source for the image is [https://aeon.co/essays/an-ordinary-person-becomes-a-torturer-with-surprising-ease "The interrogator’s soul"] by Shane O'Mara (neuroscientist). The image was published on 21... |
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