Commons:Deletion requests/File:Kurt von Tippelskirch 2.jpg

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File:Kurt von Tippelskirch 2.jpg

This file was initially tagged by Denniss as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: no primary source, bogus license claim Denniss (talk) 22:01, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Photograph was published by the German government in 1941 with no attribution to any specific author, with the copyright being voided per the original claim. Nominating user nominated all of my uploads for deletion indiscriminately after reverting my edits on Wikipedia proper. Durchbruchmüller (talk) 22:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

• The US copyright would be covered by {{PD-US-alien property}}, the US confiscated the copyright to Nazi images. --RAN (talk) 13:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
  • no attribution/no author is just a claim, image would not be free in the source country and EU. --Denniss (talk) 17:18, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
    • I assume that we  Keep per {{Anonymous-EU}}. --2001:4452:16B:1900:F041:E358:82DC:484E 11:33, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
      • For this template to be valid the uploader must have taken steps to verify the claim it was actually published without author an no one claimed authership. This is clearly not the case for this uploader. --Denniss (talk) 13:37, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

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Deleted: There's not a single shred of evidence that this photo "was published by the German government", nor that it was originally published "with no attribution to any specific author, with the copyright being voided per the original claim". And even if it were, that would not mean that the photo is automatically in the public domain, that's not how German Urheberrecht (copyright) works. Plus, the URAA would have restored the US copyrights of a 1941 German publication. And no matter how often RAN copies this bogus boilerplate text (about the Alien Property Custodian and that supposedly "the US confiscated the copyright to Nazi images") into DRs, that sweeping generalisation still isn't true. Taken from some web site, where no original source or first publication is mentioned. Without more details about the first publication, we cannot ascertain this photo's copyright status. --Rosenzweig τ 05:16, 29 February 2024 (UTC)