Commons:Deletion requests/Works by Willem van der Does

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  • Add {{delete|reason=Fill in reason for deletion here!|subpage=Works by Willem van der Does|year=2024|month=November|day=24}} to the description page of each file.
  • Notify the uploader(s) with {{subst:idw||Works by Willem van der Does|plural}} ~~~~
  • Add {{Commons:Deletion requests/Works by Willem van der Does}} at the end of today's log.
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Works by Willem van der Does

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These images were all, I think, uploaded by User:Hendricolucky. They are of works by the somewhat obscure Dutch artist Willem van der Does, who is said to have died in 1966. (See en:Willem Jan Pieter van der Does.) I believe that these works will be copyright till seventy years after van der Does' death, i.e. 2036. -- Hoary (talk) 01:44, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oopsie. I belatedly noticed that the file with the longest name was uploaded differently. (The filename should have been a giveaway. I plead caffeine deficiency.) It says:
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the National Museum of World Cultures as part of a cooperation project. The museum brings together the collections of the Tropenmuseum, Afrika Museum and the Museum of Ethnology. It exclusively provides images that are either made by its own staff, or that are otherwise free of copyright.
The photo was very likely made by its own staff, but what's photographed was not. Yet if the result is somehow "free of copyright", then presumably the others are too. (Unless these museums are somehow permitted first to claim copyright of what they possess, and then to dispose of the copyright as they see fit.) I confess that I'm quite baffled by this. ¶ There's also File:Storm, Ijs, en Walvisschen.jpg, which I think could be hosted by Wikipedia for "fair use" within any article that eventually derives from what's currently en:Draft:Storm, Ijs, en Walvisschen, but shouldn't be hosted here (unless, of course, van der Does's works are somehow PD). -- Hoary (talk) 02:09, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I should have pointed out earlier that User:Hendricolucky claims that the files are his/her "Own work". If this is so, then (a) Hendricolucky is the ghost of Van der Does, posthumously uploading his own work, or (b) Hendricolucky has taken "Own work" to mean "Yes it was me who scanned/photographed/rephotographed this", or (c) Hendricolucky opted for "Own work" as any alternative threatened to present him/her with further tiresome questions, or (d) some shortcoming in the "Cross-wiki upload from en.wikipedia.org" process is to blame. -- Hoary (talk) 23:22, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted per nomination, including the file with the long name, as this is a derivative work of his own work or work of another maker according the text on the file. All to be undeleted in 2037. Elly (talk) 21:08, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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