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It's the cover of a book. Without proof of otherwise, I assume it has copyright and that it's still active, but other users believe that PD-Ineligible should apply Thialfi 16:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Keep, PD-Ineligible. --Kjetil r 17:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)- First of all, this was published in France by a French publisher, so the cover art is most likely also French - we should apply French law, then. I see two possible cases:
- (1) PD-old. Commons:Licensing#France is quite interesting to read. It says that anonymous, pseudonymous or collective works (to which book covers often belong) are protected until 70 years after publishing, which would be 2004. Copyright extensions were granted due to the world wars, so that would make it either 2010 or 2019. I don't know in how far these extensions apply to anonymous works. However, if I read the corresponding article in French Wikipedia correctly, then the normal copyright duration was 50 years p.m.a. (they don't mention anonymous works), and it was only prolonged to 70 years in 1995. This 20 year extension "absorbed" the war extensions, in all cases where these were less than 20 years (all cases where the author did not die for France). This means that the work went PD in about 1993, maybe was protected again from 1995 to 2004. In any case, if I understood this correctly and the French Wikipedia is right, it is PD-old now.
- (2) PD-ineligible. According to this, the threshold of originality lies in "the work carrying the mark of the author's personality" (elle porte la marque de sa personnalité). This is a rather low standard, and so the book cover might well not be pd-ineligible.
- In light of this, I say Keep as pd-old. --rimshottalk 17:53, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
- Keep as PD-ineligible, for I can't see anything on this cover that would be the mark of the author's personality. *And* it's PD-old, as per Rimshot. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 18:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I already removed the request for speedy deletion yesterday since this is a extremely simple design which can't be protected by copyright law at all. 
Keep --Polarlys 19:05, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
- Keep Like I said I would :) I say this is PD-ineligible. Rocket000 03:39, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
- Keep even if we're wrong, Hitler isn't going to sue us, right... Lewis Collard! (talk, contribs, en.wp) 13:15, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
