Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Grigore Antipa.jpg
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I have my doubts about the licensing claim. The picture is signed by Antipa in 1937. The PD-Old claim requires that the author (in this case the photographer) be dead for 70 years. That would only apply if the photographer died no later than the year the picture was signed. That seems very unlikely. I suggest that you either find a different basis for licensing this, or take it off of the Commons and give a fair use rationale in the language-specific Wikipedia where you want to use it.
(I wasn't on patrol for problems when I noticed this: was just intrigued to see a picture of Antipa uploaded, then noticed a problem.)
According to User:Bapti, the original uploader was Cezarika1, who uploaded it on the Romanian Wikipedia with the comment (in Romanian) "Această imagine este inaptă de drepturi de autor şi astfel este considerată domeniu public, pentru faptul că este formată din informaţii comune şi nu are un autor original." That is to say, "This image fall outside of [literally: 'is inappropriate to'] rights of authorship and therefore is considered public domain, because of the fact that it is formed of common information and does not have an original author." Clearly that cannot be the case for a photograph: with rare and strange exceptions, and clearly this is not one of them, all photographs have someone who took them. - Jmabel | talk 20:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Delete The Romanian law is the same as most places, and it would take 70 years post-death for an image like this to become PD. There are the odd exceptions for images with no known author (though I haven't looked into this aspect); in any case, the exception may not apply here at all, since the work bares Antipa's signature (a copyrighted element) and since it may just be that it was thus copyrighted by Antipa and his successors. In essence, the photo is copyrighted until 2014 or so, unless some peculiar detail about its status becomes available somehow. Until any such moment, the provided rationale is simply misleading. Dahn 22:16, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
- Delete. How can the uploader claim that the author died more than 70 years ago, when he didn't write the author's name? Even if he is unknown, the picture was probably published after 1937. Geraki TLG 08:53, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Deleting as invalid PD-old claim. -mattbuck (Talk) 18:20, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
