Commons:Deletion requests/File:Fronton de Notre-Dame de la Paix.jpg
This church was designed by architect Pierre Fakhoury, whose enwiki article does not indicate the year of his death. The building was completed in 1990. In most countries, all paintings, sculpture, architecture, text, and other creative works have copyrights which last for a certain period of time after the death of the creator (be it the last-surviving architect, engineer, designer, sculptor, engraver, or painter). An image of a work that is still under copyright is a derivative work, and infringes on the copyright so that we cannot usually keep the image on Commons. In some countries, there is a special exception to the copyright law which allows such images under certain circumstances. We call that exception Commons:Freedom of panorama (FoP). Sadly, Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast has no Commons-acceptable FoP. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 10:39, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- Keep. Wikimedia Commons has about 65 photos of this church. Can someone explain why this one should be deleted but not the others? I feel that either we should delete all of them, or none at all. But I'm eager to hear from copyright specialists. Loranchet (talk) 14:33, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Apparently, the Côte d'Ivoire FoP indicates reproduction of copyrighted buildings and other artworks is allowed with no prohibition from the author (for this case from architect himself), if the reproduced work is "only accessory and incidental to the main subject". Photos are included among those reproductions. I also accessed an old DR to some old deleted photos of this building, at Commons:Deletion requests/Images of the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 14:57, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. --Missvain (talk) 19:27, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
