Commons:Deletion requests/File:Albert Kuntz.jpg
According to long standing consensus and Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Germany stamps are not "official works" of the German government. Therefore they are not in the public domain and their copyright expires 70 years after the death of the creator. In this case the creator, Axel Bengs, died in 1988. So the stamp is copyrighted until at least 2,058. I'm also nominating all other images of stamps in Category:Stamps by Axel Bengs for the same reason. It's possible a few are PD, but I don't feel like listing 107 individual files in the same DR. I encourage people to look through the images to make sure none of them are public domain though. Thanks. Adamant1 (talk) 07:51, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination, just the one file, please list the rest separately. This stamp had two artists, the other one is de:Rudolf Skribelka, who died in 2015. Since the stamp is from 1958, {{PD-Germany-§134-KUG}} will apply in 2029, so the stamp can be restored in 2054 after its URAA-restored US copyright has expired. --Rosenzweig τ 13:07, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
This file showing a German communist who was born in 1896 and died in 1945 was uploaded with a license tag that claims that the photograph is in the public domain because its author died over 70 years ago, but no author is named. The immediate source the file was taken from, [1], claims that the photo is from "before 1933" and does not name an author. That does not mean that the photo is anonymous in a legal sense however, because no further details at all (about date and place it was taken, when and where it was first published etc.) are given. So we cannot ascertain the copyright status of this photo, and it might still be protected by copyright in both Germany (where it presumably originated) and the US. Being from "before 1933", it is also not old enough (at least 120 years old) to qualify for the {{PD-old-assumed}} license tag. It's certainly not from 1904 (when the man shown was eight years old) or earlier. So the file should be deleted per the precautionary principle unless convincingly shown to actually be in the public domain or under a free license. It can be restored in 2054 with PD-old-assumed. Rosenzweig τ 15:55, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. --Krd 12:48, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
