Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Signs in Malta

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Files in Category:Signs in Malta

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Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:32, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This delition request is about images of signs taken in Malta. The Maltese copyright law protects pieces of art. It does not protect everyday objects and handcraft items. As acc. to [1] sign painting is a learned craft (also compare to [2]), the signs in question are handcraft items. And as we all know from the hundreds of signs around us they are everyday objects.

Generally signs as everyday objects and handcraft items are not protected by copyright law.
Not any of the signs in question (as an exception) was made by an artist.
Not any of the signs in question was made for artistic reasons.
Most signs are plain visitor information texts, reaching from the simple "way out" to larger texts if required. Not any of the texts contains artistic parts or is anyhow meant artistically.
Simple graphics and colourful letters visible in some signs are nothing more than handcraft items.

-- Ies (talk) 16:58, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I have deleted a few where there was:
- Enough text to be creative
- A map
- A photograph
These all qualify as creative works, and did not appear de minimis in those I deleted. I am unsure about the warning signs and others I have left, so am not closing the DR. Storkk (talk) 15:10, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: the ones not yet deleted by Storkk. --Jcb (talk) 22:02, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Signs in Malta

Files in Category:Signs in Malta

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