Commons:Deletion requests/File:Jacob Merkelbach, Afb 010164033195.jpg

File:Jacob Merkelbach, Afb 010164033195.jpg

This file was initially tagged by Dennis Brown as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: License says prior to 1929, the information says 1946. Based on my experience with the tanning industry (which is extensive), the 1940s is correct, so it can't be in the public domain. Yann (talk) 12:47, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

 Keep First some background: Dutch photographer Jacob Merkelbach and his daughter Mies Merkelbach made more than 50,000 photographs ("Atelier Merkelbach"). Their collection was bought by Amsterdam Archives. >36,000 photos were digitized and made available Public Domain ("Auteursrechtvrij") at the website of the Amsterdam Archives. This photograph is part of a set that Atelier Merkelbach made for Philips: 50 photographs of women with radio's, electric clocks, tanning lamps and fluorescent light bulbs. All these photographs were made in 1945-1946. About 2.000 of the Merkelbach photographs have so far been copied to Commons, and these photographs are used onWiki 2600 times. All photographs that I have seen (about half of the collection) carry the same copyright mention at the Amsterdam Archives: "auteursrechtvrij", without any directions for usage ("gebruiksvoorwaarden"). It might be wise to change the current license in Commons. Vysotsky (talk) 14:08, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

 Keep I am more likely to believe the archive than some random dude with "[extensive] experience with the tanning industry" to know what tanning looked like in the 1940s. --RAN (talk) 23:55, 9 November 2024 (UTC)