17 Mar

Commons:Village pump/Copyright

‎Pre-1923 sculpture installed in the US protected by foreign copyright: i am so wrong :D
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[[:File:Gasson_in_the_morning.jpg]] was an image of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nazianzus/2268592262/ the eagle outside Gasson College]. It was deleted as the photograph is a derivative work of the sculpture per no FoP in the US. This bronze was definitely made in 1912 or before, so I was going to request undeletion on this, but..

[[:File:Gasson_in_the_morning.jpg]] was an image of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nazianzus/2268592262/ the eagle outside Gasson College]. It was deleted as the photograph is a derivative work of the sculpture per no FoP in the US. This bronze was definitely made in 1912 or before, so I was going to request undeletion on this, but..

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The earliest record of this eagle being anywhere is [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tUSPc65Gd1sC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA58 outside Larz Anderson's house in Tokyo]. He brought it back with him to the US in 1913. If the sculpture is Japanese, then the sculptor must have died before 1962 for it to be PD, which is far from certain.
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The earliest record of this eagle being anywhere is [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tUSPc65Gd1sC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA58 outside Larz Anderson's house in Tokyo]. He brought it back with him to the US in 1913.(This is an image of the eagle in Anderson's Japanese garden in Brookline, MA). If the sculpture is Japanese, then the sculptor must have died before 1962 for it to be PD, which is far from certain.

Is the photo rightly deleted as a derivative work? --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 01:23, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Is the photo rightly deleted as a derivative work? --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 01:23, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

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