Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Subway Portraits

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Files in Category:Subway Portraits

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Unfortunately, there is no freedom of panorama for artwork in the United States. I cannot find evidence that the artist, Chuck Close, released this artwork under a free license. Other images in Category:Subway Portraits may need to be reviewed as well, but I have nominated these particular images because they predominantly or solely depict the artwork.

Epicgenius (talk) 17:29, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • If we need a free license then we have it from the MTA that owns the artwork and has published one of these files. But if we need freedom of panorama then we don't have it and the files should be deleted. Vcohen (talk) 08:52, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment MTA cannot release the work under a free license, unless the copyright was transferred to them by the original author. There is no evidence that this is the case. --ShyAlpaca482 (talk) 01:43, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    ShyAlpaca482 is correct. We need permission from Close's estate for these images, as Close still owned the copyright to the artwork at the time of his death, despite the fact that the art is on MTA property. Epicgenius (talk) 15:48, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 19:06, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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