Commons:Deletion requests/File:2002 flood service medal.jpg

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File:2002 flood service medal.jpg

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Derivative work: photograph of contemporary (2002) medal Эlcobbola talk 22:23, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What's the problem please? This is a scan of a medal that is in my personal collection. If you found it somewhere else, check the name of the person who uploaded it in the OMSA database or in the GMIC personal galeries, you will see it was also me as I own the copyright and can upload it where I like. Fdutil (talk) 23:19, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
See COM:DW. There are two copyrights: 1) the medal and 2) the photo of the medal. You may have taken the photo, and you may own the medal (mere physical property rights), but the medal's creator retains the intellectual property rights and thus his/her permission would be required to license this image freely. Эlcobbola talk 23:28, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
OK... I'll take it you're new at this. Been down this road before, unfortunately. Are you saying that every single photo of a contemporary medal on Wiki that isn't accompanied by a letter of permission from it's original creator/designer is to be deleted? If that is the case, you're looking at thousands of deletions from thousands of articles, just in phaleristics. If this is to be the case, please let me know, so many friends think me completely daft for spending so many countless hours contributing to Wiki in hundreds of articles vice publishing my own books... I'm simply tired of these arbitrary actions... Think I'll just stop coming here. Cheers! Fdutil (talk) 23:50, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well?

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So what is it going to be? Are you going to keep sporadically and completely arbitrarily doing this? If your argument is valid, then hundreds of thousands of photos on Wikipedia MUST be deleted post haste. In Phaleristics alone (look it up), on English Wiki alone, you're easily looking at 20,000+ photos to be deleted. Once you've done that, what's next? Toasters? Blenders? Tractors? Toilet plungers? Do you have any idea of how tiring and frustrating it is for people who donate thousands of hours of their time to Wiki and material from their personal property to have to go through this a few times a year... Fdutil (talk) 16:33, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The latter is false; copyright law does not protect utilitarian or functional designs like that (they save those for patents). Medals are considered to be three-dimensional artwork, please read COM:DW. ViperSnake151 (talk) 01:08, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: Just because we have not deleted every unlicenced image does not mean we cannot delete any. We must start somewhere. Stifle (talk) 17:43, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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