Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with Indiana state seal

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Files found with Special:Search/Indiana state seal

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Dubious public domain rationale

AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:47, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • I agree the current copyright status is dubious--the law does not unambiguously say that public records are not under copyright. (And the CDC did not create the seal, so that license is clearly incorrect.) However, upon researching the state seal itself, it appears to have been created before 1925, which would make it public domain in the US. This article from the official Indiana government website includes a discussion about the seal in 1905.
I thus propose the state public domain rationale be changed to {{PD-US-expired}}. Trlkly (talk) 06:51, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The SVG of the state seal was drawn by the federal government. They were on a series of CDC documents but the same drawings (bitmap versions) were also found on U.S. embassy websites. PD-USGov one way or another. So yes, the license on the state seal SVG is correct. The general design of the seal is different than a particular graphic representation -- see Commons:Coats of arms. Each different representation/drawing has its own independent copyright. Seal drawings you find on state websites are usually not OK, but that one in particular is fine.  Keep
The png has an invalid rationale, but it was taken from the same representation. That means it should have been changed to the {{US state seal from usembassy.de}} at the time from the deprecated tags it was once using, but instead someone changed to the current licensing text, which is indeed incorrect. So, changing to that tag would fix that (and you can see the original bitmap upload still at https://usa.usembassy.de/indiana.htm ).  Keep
The seal of the attorney general does look problematic. That would seem to have been copied from an in.gov website, and as such it is a state drawing, and would be copyrighted by the state. We would need a license for it. If the actual drawing itself was part of a law, you could possibly argue PD-EdictGov, but that is unlikely and has not been demonstrated. So for that one,  Delete. Carl Lindberg (talk) 07:31, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: great thanks to Carl Lindberg, one deleted and two kept. --rubin16 (talk) 08:22, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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