Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2014 May 20



File:Logo ESC Rennes.png

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The result of the discussion was: delete, deleted by. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:13, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * File:Logo ESC Rennes.png ([ delete] | talk | [ history] | [ logs]).


 * No CC release obivious at source Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:31, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
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File:WPA Main Image.jpg

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The result of the discussion was: delete, deleted by. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:14, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * File:WPA Main Image.jpg ([ delete] | talk | [ history] | [ logs]).


 * WPA Main Image.jpg is not a public domain poster, but a copyrighted album cover. This is not actually a public domain image by the US Government. It is the cover of an album by the band Works Progress Administration (musical group). See here. Some websites (according to an image search)seem to have confused it for an authentic New Deal-era government poster, which is how it is being used on the page Works Progress Administration, the only place it is being used currently. This does not constitute fair use because many more appropriate images could illustrate the Works Progress Administration, many of them are public domain, and the image is used in a misleading way that suggests it is a poster produced by the WPA, not an album cover imitating the style of the era's posters.  Wurstmaster (talk) 21:23, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment It looks plausible to me that the album cover is a pastiche of a WPA poster and not a copy of one. However, I am not qualified to judge reliably. I have meantime replaced the image in Works Progress Administration with a genuine poster. If this is merely an album cover it is not only not free but is inappropriate in the article! Thincat (talk) 23:33, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The band can use the image too. It certainly looks authentic to me. It is not a pastiche it is a single unified image in the WPA style. The poster is presented as authentic WPA art by WPA historian Richard Friswell in a scholarly article "FDR's New Deal and the Works Progress Administration" in Arttes Magazine March 8, 2011 online here Rjensen (talk) 02:16, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, certainly. If the CD cover is simply a copy (cropped version?) of an original poster then the image remains public domain. Thincat (talk) 08:43, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. what happened according to the visuals company "Alphabet Arms Design" that made the artwork for the band is that "WPA came to us with the idea of referencing vintage posters of the Works Progress Administration...." [see their website at http://www.alphabetarm.com/cdartdirection/wpa/]They made crops, montages etc from original WPA art and photos. But the file under discussion on Wiki is an exact copy of the original WPA art and was not something created by Alphabet Arms Design. It is therefore PD. Rjensen (talk) 14:25, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I had posted at Talk:Works Progress Administration before seeing your comment here. If what Works Progress Administration (musical group) have told me by email is correct then my conclusion is that this artwork is sufficiently original to attract its own copyright. The email said (in its entirety) "The image on the WPA cover is based on the “Work Promotes Confidence” WPA poster (viewable here), but the cover was designed by Alphabet Arm graphic design (their page on the artwork is here)." Thincat (talk) 17:50, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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