Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Graffiti of The Simpsons

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Files in Category:Graffiti of The Simpsons

These are derivative works of copyrighted and non-free characters from The Simpsons TV show. While there may be freedom of panorama for the photographic reproduction (not in Canada), the murals themselves are copyright violations of the original series.

De728631 (talk) 13:27, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The graffiti can be kept per {{Non-free graffiti}}. --B dash (talk) 13:29, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- No, this template relates only to the graffiti itself, but we're talking about the figures depicted. These graffitis are copyright violations in the first place, so we can't spread them. De728631 (talk) 13:33, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - I know nothing about copyright law but the image is in public, and no profit or financial benefit accrued to the artist, if those things make a difference.
    - Unfortunately this doesn't make a difference. Once again, the graffiti artists were not allowed to repaint the Simpson characters, so we can't republish their graffitis. De728631 (talk) 14:09, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@De728631: I think some were drawn in a style sufficiently different from the original to not cause a copyright infringement.
- Keep File:Aretxabaleta - graffiti 01.JPG (unless the three-headed dog isn't original, I don't recognize it)
- Neutral or weak delete File:Bart Simpson with a Spraycan - a Municipal Nightmare - panoramio.jpg (quite different in style, but unlike Marge below does not introduce any new original elements)
- Keep File:Graffiti in pancevo-3.jpg
- Keep File:Graffiti on Derelict factory, Faro, 9 October 2015 (2).JPG Marge always has eyelashes, far smaller pupils, different nose, different mouth, smaller boobs, different clothing and completely different legs. The only true similarities are that she's female, has tall blue hair (sort of..) and yellow skin color. Matt Groening doesn't have the right to all yellow-skinned tall women with tall blue hair. Marge Simpson has been ingrained in our memory so we recognize this instantly, but I have severe doubts it is a copyright infringement.
- Keep File:Katowice summer 2015 049.JPG
- Keep File:Street Art Gatineau, Quebec, Canada 60.jpg seems too distant from Kang and Kodos. Out of context, chances are you wouldn't even recognize it.
- Keep File:Street Art Gatineau, Quebec, Canada 68.jpg (unless Barney actually looks like that in an episode. I can't remember such a thing)
- Delete File:Graffiti on Derelict factory, Faro, 9 October 2015 (4).JPG mouth, nose, spikes and skin color make this too close to Bart, probably.
- Delete File:Street Art Gatineau, Quebec, Canada 69.jpg Ned actually looks like that in one (or probably a few) episodes.

And probably

Delete the rest as well. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 15:55, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep For File:Katowice summer 2015 049.JPG. Some similarity in style, but not a clear indication of a copyright character (since he is masked). Also, Poland has freedom of panorama, and who is to say it does not overrule other laws? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 06:13, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus: See my response to Bernd Schwabe in Hannover on Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Donald Duck. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 06:48, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If we can have File:422d Bombardment Squadron - Emblem.png because US law on public domain/govt insignia overrides copyright, we can have the Polish graffiti because why Polish FOP cannot do the same? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Piotrus (talk • contribs)

@Piotrus: US law regarding government insignia does not override regular copyright. I didn't bother nominating the insignia because most are drawn in a rather different style compared to the originals from Disney. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 09:12, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

These characters are painted in a style sufficiently different from the original simpson characters to not cause a copyright infringement. Kolforn (talk) 08:16, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted, but some are kept. Apparently I as fan of the Simpsons must close the request. There is no three-headed dog or three-eyed and two-tailed cow in the Simpsons. I did not recognize the file 68 as Simpsons character. The files were incorrectly categorized. Taivo (talk) 14:01, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Graffiti of The Simpsons

Files in Category:Graffiti of The Simpsons

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