Commons:Deletion requests/File:Wick Farm, near Ditchling by Charles Knight.jpg
This file was initially tagged by Netherzone as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: While the painting may be out of copyright, the Metadata for the photograph clearly states © Victoria and Albert Museum, London For 2D art, we do not care about copyright tage of the museums, but if this is this Charles Knight, the artist died in 1990, and the artwork will be out of copyright in 2061. Ymblanter (talk) 19:38, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- Ymblanter, the painting was done for the British government as part of the Recording Britain scheme and therefore had Crown copyright (rather that it being the copyright of Knight). The HMSO has declared the expiry of Crown copyright worldwide. If you look at any of the Recording Britain paintings on Wikipedia commons they all say the same thing.
- Netherzone, could this issue be overcome by putting Victoria and Albert museum in the caption to recognise that they now own it? I’m not sure how else to get the paintings up, would you be able to make any suggestions? Matthewfoliverathotmaildotcom (talk) 11:32, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Kept: no valid reason for deletion. The work was comissioned by the British government and is now public domain as the Crown copyright has already expired. That is regardless of the date of death of the artist. The claim of copyright made by the museum is moot and not to be considered. --Bedivere (talk) 03:24, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
