Commons:Deletion requests/File:Max Steiner.jpg
We have no proof it's in the public domain. The website it came from has a copyright notation at its lower left corner © 2012. The en.WP film still article doesn't prove this. The photographer/producer of the photo is listed as unknown and the timeframe is estimated as circa 1930s. It seems that doing a copyright search when neither of those facts are known would be difficult to impossible. Re: it having other uses, others may be using it with permission. Since the man is dead, the photo could have been uploaded to en.WP as a non-free file without any issues. “The file is obviously common property. It can be found all over the internet and nobody has complained.”We hope (talk) 06:01, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
- Your tag rationale is without basis as there is no evidence, much less proof, that the image is copyrighted or would have been copyrighted. Quite the opposite, as shown in the image info page. If anything, your indicating a website has a copyright almost proves the opposite: the image has been reproduced numerous times years before; a boilerplate copyright notice on a website or even a book, is only evidence of a publication date, since a photo requires its own copyright. The fact that the website has reproduced numerous other photos going back over 80 years, and does not claim a copyright over any of them, would be evidence that they are all likely PD. Are you personally making your blitz-tagging a form of overruling long-standing copyright rules, ie. publicity photos taken to promote a film actor or other celebrity were not usually copyrighted and were intended to remain free for publications to use wherever possible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiwatcher1 (talk • contribs) 20:33, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Delete I don't believe the website using the image possesses any rights to it. They stole it off the web, most likely. However, given the available evidence, there's no way to verify this image is PD, as we can't check copyright renewal records. Dcoetzee (talk) 23:38, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Deleted: per Dcoetzee. INeverCry 01:23, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
