Commons:Deletion requests/Stamps of Israel
Stamps of Israel
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Freedom of Panorama (article 23 of the 2007 copyright law) does not apply to stamps. Only old stamps are free (State copyright, there used to be a Ministry of Postal Services). /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 16:56, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Freedom of Panorama has nothing to do with this case. There is an explicit stipulation in paragraph 51 of the Postal Services Statute (חוק הדואר) that reserves all rights on stamps' designs to the State of Israel. While the statute itself is from 1986, this specific paragraph was amended in 2004. I don't know what was the original version, perhaps it was more permissive, but as of now, Israeli stamps are not eligible for the Commons, with the exception of stamps older than 50 years. The Israeli Copyright Statute from 2007 determines that the State's copyrights expire on 1 January of the 51st year after the creation of the work. Pieter should be noted that neither his false interpretation of the Israeli FoP principle nor other more credible interpretations are relevant here. I can only regret the mistake that led an Israeli user to believe that stamps were in the public domain, and urge admins to delete these images. I have every reason to believe that the mistake had been made in good faith. Drork (talk) 16:07, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Deleted. As both Pieter Kuiper and Drork have noted, Freedom of Panorama doesn't cover stamps and the explicit clause relating to stamps that Drork highlights means that it is pretty obvious that stamps less than 50 years old are protected by copyright. Commons:Stamps/Public domain#Israel will need to be updated to reflect this situation. There was nothing to suggest that the uploading of these images was anything other than a mistake made in good faith. Adambro (talk) 16:32, 9 December 2009 (UTC)