Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 April 30/Images

Images


 * Image:Dave lamont.jpg ([ history] · [ last edit]) from Onorem♠Dil 13:10, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Image:Bellwitch cavemouth.jpg ([ history] · [ last edit]) from Onorem♠Dil 13:22, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Image:Burjalarab19.jpg ([ history] · [ last edit]) obvious scan from a book/poster/periodical. Dschwen 14:44, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Image:AncientPhonecian.jpg ([ history] · [ last edit]) from  Eli  +  18:21, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep - Ancient artistic depiction, which is thousands of years old. There is no copyright problem, because Eli seems to have missed the fact that copyright didn't exist at the time of the ancient Phoenicians. The people who created the book have no way to hold a copyright on the image since it was created in ancient times, not by them and the only reason the book creators too were able to use it is because its so old and public domain art (same reason Wikipedia can). Eli is up to something very suspicious, he three times tried to "remove" the ancient piece of Phoenician artwork, not because of any problem with copyright (which it has none) but because he doesn't "like" how the person looks. Very, very suspicious, this is essentially a faux-attempt to "delete" an image he/she doesn't like - Gennarous (talk) 18:34, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * DeleteThe issue is whether the photograph is legally copyright. It's not really a good idea to make personal attacks on an editor like this, especially when you don't explain the situation correctly. The photograph is clearly of a Minoan woman, and that was the original dispute as it was being used to represent a Phoenician woman (the book itself is fringe). This dispute then spilled over into whether the image was copyright, which does need to be clarified. Our image guidelines say "Images and photographs, like written works, are subject to copyright." I have seen a discussion which suggested that photos are no longer copyright in the US, but that appears to be incorrect, see, so it looks to me as though this is copyright. --Doug Weller (talk) 15:59, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm resolving this as "keep" - it's a flat-image representation of an out-of-copyright artwork. --Alvestrand (talk) 08:36, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Image:1094109725harry2.jpg ([ history] · [ last edit]) (url not detected). Nomination completed by DumbBOT (talk) 23:13, 30 April 2008 (UTC)