Commons:Deletion requests/File:Sakura Miyawaki Signature.png

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File:Sakura Miyawaki Signature.png

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With a smiling face in the signature, IMO it is a calligraphic signature and not OK per COM:SIG Japan A1Cafel (talk) 05:25, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep.
  • This is not copyright eligible Japanese calligraphy.
  • This is below the "threshold of originality" for Japan. (Different from the lower ToO in COM:TOO Hong Kong)
  • This signature cannot claim a copyright for the "smiley face" or "happy face."
See https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=calligraphy+of+japan&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image
The "smiley face or happy face" is found worldwide. This file's happy face is below COM:TOO. Example here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sabritas_smiley_face.svg Also, this signature cannot claim a copyright for the "smiley face" or "happy face."
In https://www.courts.go.jp/app/hanrei_jp/detail7?id=13555 the English translation found at "citation 16" quotation,
"...[I]f the work has aesthetic elements that express thoughts and feelings through the selection of letters, the shape and size of the letters, the shading of the ink, the stroke of the brush, and the composition of the letters in combination with each other, it may be eligible for copyright protection as a work of art that shows the writer's individual expression. If the work has aesthetic elements that express ideas and feelings through the size of the ink, the shading of the ink, the movement or strokes of the brush, the composition of the letters in combination with each other, etc., it is considered to be a work of art in which the author's unique expression is expressed and can be protected by copyright."
"A signature must have aesthetic properties capable of artistic appreciation, not just beauty in terms of practical functionality, to be copyrightable." Quoted from COM:SIG Japan. This signature ONLY has "... practical functionality ..." and is NOT copyrightable. --Ooligan (talk) 19:01, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: signature is still below ToO in Japan. --Abzeronow (talk) 20:40, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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