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 Delete unfortunately wikipedia permission per the twitter links is not enough, it needs to be a specific licence, such as cc-by-2.0 or similar. Ww2censor (talk) 11:03, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I reached out to Dr. Landsman for permission and he responds with
The correct answer for me to reply to your request is
“COPYRIGHT NOTICE. The article is a work of the United States Government; Title 17 U.S.C 105 provides that copyright protection is not available for any work of the United States ::government in the United States.”
So, you’re welcome to use the photo of one of the bookshelves in my office.
Best regards.
David Landsman
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David Landsman, Ph.D.
Chief, Computational Biology Branch
NCBI, NLM, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.
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Which I believe wikicommons knows as
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.
Cariaso (talk) 20:52, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: Photographer is federal employee .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 23:56, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]