Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Cosplay of Elsa (Disney)

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Files in Category:Cosplay of Elsa (Disney)

Copyvios of The Walt Disney Company's character Elsa. Category:Cosplay of Elsa (Disney) too, once empty.

— Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me} 16:04, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is File:20140215-IMG 4044 - Desucon Frostbite 2014 - clogz.jpg perhaps miscategorised? Nemo 16:17, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Nemo bis: The categorization was done by your bot, you tell me. — Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me} 17:51, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Cosplay photos are a tough issue; mostly we allow them. At one point Mike Godwin, who was the Wikimedia Foundation attorney at the time specifically said that a person dressed as a character was not a copyright violation: Commons:Deletion requests/Images of costumes tagged as copyvios by AnimeFan/Mike Godwin mail. Now it's gotten more complex: Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter#Costumes and cosplay, which the lawyer hisself admits is hard to follow. I'm going to read that as "does the picture focus on the inanimate character, as opposed to the person in the costume?" and in most of the cosplay photos, they are photos of the person doing the specific cosplay, rather than just of the character represented by their costume. --GRuban (talk) 16:37, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@GRuban: I was relying on this statement. — Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me} 17:47, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep To add to the above, an Elsa costume often amounts to a blue dress and a hairstyle (possibly a wig). Both are utilitarian and not copyrightable. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 14:11, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Elsa's costume is very simplistic and wouldn't really pass the threshold of originality as a standalone costume, combining blonde hair and a blue dress 👗 isn't original and I'm sure that one can't copyright © such a generic attire. Yes, Elsa the character is copyrighted but I doubt that her costume 👯‍♂️ is original enough to also be protected by this same copyright. --Donald Trung (Talk 💬) ("The Chinese Coin Troll" 👿) (Articles 📚) 12:29, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: per discussion. Deleted only those including copyrighted material (e.g toys, drawings). All costumes are different, no one matches exactly the cartoon, and consist basically in a blue dress (sometimes very short!) and a blonde wig; which are not copyrightable. Ruthven (msg) 09:29, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Cosplay of Elsa (Disney)

Files in Category:Cosplay of Elsa (Disney)

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