Commons:Deletion requests/File:Partners and Cinderella.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.
Statue in the United States which has no FOP for statues. The statue may or may not have a copyright notice, but in either case it is a derivative work of en:Steamboat Willie, so it will be copyrighted at least as long as Steamboat Willie is copyrighted. See also Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mickey Mouse - The Mad Doctor.png. Stefan4 (talk) 00:08, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
- Strange arguments, I think. The statue itself and Mickey Mouse as a figure are undoubtedly protected by copyright laws. But this has nothing to do with the photograph. The question here is: Is the ground where the picture was shot a public place or not? If you say "No, Walt Disney World Resort is a private ground and this Wikimedia Commons photographer has no permission by the owners to take pictures there and release them under a GNU licence" then we have indeed to delete most of the Wikimedia Commons pictures of the magic kingdom. But, please: We should answer that question, get it clear and find a general rule for photographs like that. We need a solution, because it's silly to start new deletion requests every few months by people who can't judge copyright and freedom of panorama rules. -- J.-H. Janßen (talk) 19:31, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
- This photo was taken in the United States. You can't take a photo of a statue in the United States unless the copyright to the statue has expired, regardless of whether it is located at a public place or not. Laws differ from country to country as explained at COM:FOP. Some countries, such as Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom, allow you to take a photo of most things. Other countries, such as the United States, only allow you to take photos of buildings but not of statues. Yet other countries, such as France, Russia and Italy, don't allow you to take photos of anything, not even buildings. --Stefan4 (talk) 19:37, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Delete Statue was unveiled on November 18, 1993 [1], meaning copyright is automatic and does not need to be declared on the statue. There is no freedom of panorama (regardless of public or private space) in the U.S. for three dimensional works of art, such as statues. The statue is the central focus of the image and is not de minimis to the overall image. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:23, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Deleted: per Hammersoft JuTa 20:26, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
