Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Shakespeare.jpg

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Image:Shakespeare.jpg

Oh dear. This may be a famous portrait, but unfortunately the original is held by the National gallery in the UK, and under UK law the PD-Art tag cannot be used: see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for details. It seems the image was first uploaded to the English Wikipedia, where it is probably OK since that site applies US law exclusively. However, on Commons the image has to be free not only in the US but also in the home country as well, and this is not free under UK law. See also Commons:Licensing#Interaction of United States copyright law and foreign copyright law. A pity, but this one will have to go.

•  Delete - MichaelMaggs 21:16, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Keep - Until there is UK case law on this issue, there is no reason to guess what they may decide. This is a closeup inframe, which limits the photographer's selections. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 02:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
• Where does this reproduction come from? Where was this reproduction first published? If not in the UK, we may happily ignore UK law. Lupo 09:19, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Not sure, but the photograph of the original was surely taken in the UK. --MichaelMaggs 18:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

In any case it looks identical to the version at the largest zoom at the NPG :-( (The full picture could be obtained by downloading the 120 tiles from Tile 4-0-0 to Tile 4-9-11 (4 is the zoom level, second number a column index, third number a row index) and stitching them together.) Lupo 19:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

•  Delete seems it was mistaken to upload this. Majorly (talk) 20:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Does anyone know where the earlier versions came from? Maybe we can keep at least those... Lupo 23:14, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I think the works of Shakespeare should be in the public domain. Therefore, don't delete.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.143.243 (talk • contribs) 06:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

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Deleting per nom. Bye bye en FP - bwahahaha! -mattbuck (Talk) 00:18, 18 June 2008 (UTC)