Commons:Deletion requests/File:Abul ala maududi.jpg
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derivative work based on non-free photograph,[1], see COM:DW. Verbcatcher (talk) 01:44, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
- Comment: I doubt that page owns the copyright. That photo (and its mirror reversed variant) is so widely available on so many unrelated sites, it would be impossible to determine who owns it, or if it's even owned by anyone at all, given its wide availability. There seem to be other derivative works, for example this. None of this is an argument for keeping, but asserting it's non-free is not a valid conclusion just because the photo happens to appear on one of countless sites. Anachronist (talk) 04:49, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
- I agree that the website probably does not own the copyright of the photograph; I added the link to establish that this painting is based on the photograph. Whether the photograph is free depends on where and when it was first published. Abul A'la Maududi lived in Pakistan, so we should probably apply COM:PAKISTAN, where the applicable clause is:
- With a photograph, copyright subsists until 50 years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the photograph is first published.
- Accordingly, the photograph would be public domain (PD) in Pakistan if it was first published there before 1971. The photograph must also be PD in the US. The Hirtle chart is a useful guide here. If the photo was first published before 1971, then to be PD in the US it must would have to have been PD in Pakistan on 1 January 1996. That is, it would have to be first published before 1946.
- In summary, we require the photograph to be PD both in its home country and in the US. To be PD in Pakistan it must be first published there before 1971. If this is true, then to be PD in the US it must be first published before 1946. Maududi was born in 1903, so was 42 in 1945. He is clearly over 42 in the photograph so the photograph is not PD in the US. Verbcatcher (talk) 18:07, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Delete per Verbcatcher. E4024 (talk) 02:21, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. --shizhao (talk) 13:31, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
