Commons:Deletion requests/File:LovecraftHoward.jpg
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This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.
PD claim is unsupported and patently invalid. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (talk) 12:10, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Delete no source even given. Hekerui (talk) 17:01, 4 July 2012 (UTC)- Comment. H.P. Lovecraft died in 1937, which is over 70 years ago, the license given by the uploader. The w:H.P. Lovecraft article captions it as taken in 1934. I'd bet even money the photo comes from one of his books. Question: would Lovecraft have held copyright over the image if it were taken for one of his books as a work for hire, even if it were taken by someone else? If so, then it should be PD-life+70 no matter what. If not... who knows? Wnt (talk) 05:02, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
- Delete: No explanation of what a source of "Howard" or an author of "Lovecraft" on a picture of Lovecraft might mean. Probable U.S. work and U.S. publication, after 1922, with no evidence of copyright expiration. No evidence shown that H.P. Lovecraft was the copyright owner of this work. Even if he was, no evidence of first publication before 1923, first publication after 2002, or failure to meet 1923–1989 copyright requirements. This photograph could have been taken as late as 1937; and could have been first published at any time between its creation and when a modified version of it appears at HPLovecraft-1.jpg (October 2009) via [1]. It is, of course, doubtful that a TypePad blog was the first publication for this photo. Roughly speaking, U.S. photographs taken between 1923 and 1937, and known to be published as of 2009, are still under copyright (in 2012) unless:
- the photograph appeared in or as a pre-1978 work, with the permission of the copyright holder, and without a copyright notice; or
- the copyright was not renewed for works in which this photograph appears before 1963 with the permission of the copyright holder; or
- it remained unpublished until 2003, and the author (or possibly "creator" as work-for-hire?) was a known person (not corporate/anonymous), and the author (or possibly "creator" as work-for-hire) died before 1942 (70 years before 2012).
- No evidence that this is from an out-of-copyright source. (For that matter: no evidence that the uploader understands what "author" or "source" even means; see also Commons:Deletion requests/File:H. P. Lovecraft.jpg.) --Closeapple (talk) 04:58, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Deleted: Denniss (talk) 09:46, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
