Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Gryposaurus2.jpg
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Appears to have been drawn after this copyrighted image: http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/7827/ikkenavngivet6kopilw3.jpg FunkMonk (talk) 04:24, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Imageshack is not a proper source and I'm not sure this line tracing even qualifies for copyright. -Nard 12:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Comment AFAIK, Imageshack is where FunkMonk puts scans from a book that he personally owns, in order to prove copyright violations, rather than uploading them here for comparison. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 15:44, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Right. -Nard the Bard 15:47, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, it's from a book called "The Ultimate Dinosaur Book" by David Lambert. I believe it's a stock image owned by Dorling Kindersly, in any case, it's non-free. FunkMonk (talk) 15:53, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Right. -Nard the Bard 15:47, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Comment AFAIK, Imageshack is where FunkMonk puts scans from a book that he personally owns, in order to prove copyright violations, rather than uploading them here for comparison. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 15:44, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Keep I'm looking at the two pictures, and it's not a simple as a tracing. The dinosaurs are looking in different directions, for one thing. I'm not even sure that this was the original; I think the artist of our version could have worked from other pictures to get this result. Given that the concept of a bare headshot isn't copyrighted, and the fact that any two headshots of a real creature designed to exemplify that creature are going to look pretty similar, especially once you abstract away color, I don't think this violates copyright.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:07, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
- They could had worked from the same skeletal restoration for sure, but what made me believe it was traced is the ridge on the neck, which is pretty much artistic license, since fossils don't show them, so it seemed like too much of a coincidence that they had both drawn it. Other drawings that were much more blatant tracings also had minor differences, like shape of certain organs, but the poses and artistic choices that aren't based on anything but imagination, since fossils don't show them, indicate whether it is a tracing or not. Take these for example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Deinonychus_ByUtah.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Archaeopteryx_ByUtah.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Acrocanthosaurus_ByUtah.jpg It's a sure tracing, but there are minor differences still. FunkMonk (talk) 22:51, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
Deleted. per FunkMonk MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:27, 16 November 2008 (UTC)