Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Wiki erudito

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It says that these Libyan banknotes were made by the person who uploaded them to English Wikipedia. This seems dubious. There is no entry for Libya at COM:CUR and COM:CRT suggests that they are copyrighted for 30 years since publication.

Stefan4 (talk) 17:57, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I read here that this files are in the public domain, because they are photos of Libyan currency notes and they seem not to violate the Libyan Copyright Law No. 7 of 1984--80.29.15.211 11:40, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

COM:CRT#Libya links to Libyan Law No. (9) for 1968 (1968). If the current law is called "Law No. 7 of 1984", then this suggests that COM:CRT#Libya is heavily outdated and that anything stated there may be wrong. "Law No. 7 of 1984" appears to be the name of the law and not a specific section of it, so we would need to find which section of the law the uploader of File:Libya - half a dinar 2.jpg refers to and determine whether the claim is correct. --Stefan4 (talk) 12:05, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I've asked at COM:VPC#Libya. In short, it seems that COM:CRT#Libya is all wrong and that we have no way to tell if a work is protected by copyright in Libya or not. --Stefan4 (talk) 12:51, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
According to this link, the 1984 law was based on the 1968 law (which is the only one on wipolex unfortunately). It also states that the terms are 50pma, so at least that was increased by the 1984 law. This ebook has much the same info, and prints out a lot of the 1968 law, but unsure if it contains any of the 1984 law (it's just a preview book, not free). Presumably most of the stuff from 1968 would still apply, but it'd be best to know the details of what changed. I can't find any concrete info beyond the increase to 50pma. Carl Lindberg (talk) 16:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There must have been other changes too. COM:CRT#Libya suggests that the 1968 law is completely incompatible with the Berne Convention which Libya joined in the 1970s. No idea if there were other changes apart from extending copyright protection to foreign works and extending the copyright term, though. --Stefan4 (talk) 12:02, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure if it is completely incompatible... the terms need to be lengthened, that's all. Sounds like there was a reciprocity thing for foreign authors, which automatically becomes valid for other Berne members once Libya joined the Berne Convention. But it would be good to see if the 1984 law was basically an amendment which altered a few sections, or if it was a re-issue of the entire copyright law where they took the basic ideas from the earlier law but reworded extensively. 159.140.254.10 00:55, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: Unclear copyright status. Unless we have clear, explicit written/textual, tangible evidence indicating that these files are indeed freely licensed under a Commons compatible license, we cannot host them on Commons FASTILY 08:35, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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