Commons:Deletion requests/Files of User:RCMMuseum

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Files of User:RCMMuseum

These are photographs of paintings and drawings in the Museum of the Royal College of Music in London. There is no evidence (or claim) that RCMMuseum (talk · contribs) represents the Museum. It is unlikely that these paintings and drawings are public domain and there is no evidence of permission from the copyright holders.

The following are definitely in copyright because the artist died less than 70 years ago (after 1947), or is still living:

• File:Portrait of Kathleen Long.jpg - Painting by Guy Worsdell, painted in 1962 (RCM page)
• File:Portrait of Edmund Rubbra.jpg - Painting by Juliet Kathleen Pannett, painted circa 1957
• File:Portrait of Ernest Hall.jpg - Drawing by w:en:Ernest Shepherd (1879-1976)
• File:Portrait of Leff Pouishnoff.jpg - Drawing by William Samuel Rundle, drawn in 1959
• File:Portrait of Mathilde Verne.jpg - Painting by w:en:Flora Lion (1878-1958)
• File:Portrait of Dennis Arundell.jpg - Painting by Hugh Buss (1894–1979)[1]
• File:Portrait of Sir Keith Falkner.jpg - Painting by w:en:Leonard Boden (1911-1999)
• File:Portrait of Sir Ernest Bullock.jpg - Painting by w:en:John Stanton Ward (1917-2007)
• File:Portrait of Sir George Dyson.jpg - Painting by w:en:Anthony Devas (1911-1958)
• File:Portrait of Michael Gough Matthews.jpg - Painting by Tim Rukavina, painted in 1991
• File:Portrait of Louis Kentner.jpg - Drawing by René Shapshak (1899-1985)[2]
• File:Herbert Howells.jpg - Painting by Leonard Boden, painted in 1974

The copyright position of the the following is unclear because artist's date of death unknown, but they may be in copyright:

• File:Portrait of Emily Daymond.jpg - Painting by Dorothy Darnell (active 1904–1922)[3] (RCM page)
• File:Portrait of Herbert Fryer.jpg - anonymous painting, sitter's dates are 1877-1957, appears to be about 50, so probably painted after c.1927.
• File:Portrait of Charles Herbert Kitson.jpg - Drawing by John Cooper, made before 1959 [4]
• File:Portrait of Eugene Cruft.jpg - portrait of Eugene Cruft (1887-1976) by Michael Ross (dates unknown) (RCM page)

Verbcatcher (talk) 07:46, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

• I support deletion. Everything said in the nomination seems to be true. Also, even if the editor does "represent the museum" there is no evidence that the museum owns the copyright to all these pictures. Owning a physical picture is a very different thing from owning the right to give permission to anyone in the world to create copies of the picture and use them for any purpose, as claimed in the licensing terms given by the uploader. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:26, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

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Deleted: per nomination. An OTRS authorisation can be necessary if the copyright was transferred to the Museum somehow. Ruthven (msg) 12:57, 3 October 2017 (UTC)