Commons:Deletion requests/File:Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfehani8.jpg

This photograph (and all the others in this series) has bad provenance - it cannot have been taken in 2014, as its subject is a cleric who was murdered in 1982. It is credited to sajed.ir , a site claiming that its content is available under the GFDL. However, they give no details as to where the photos come from, and I've found at least some of "their" photos on other sites, minus the sajed.ir watermark. I therefore conclude that sajed.ir is engaged in (perhaps involuntary) license-washing, and that therefore none of their photos can be accepted on Commons. (Look how many deletions there have been on this uploader's other works!) DS (talk) 18:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Other photos in this series: file:Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfehani7.jpg, file:Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfehani6.jpg , File:Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfehani5.jpg, File:Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfehani4.jpg, File:Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfehani3.jpg, File:Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfehani2.jpg, and File:Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfehani1.jpg. DS (talk) 18:45, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DS may be right. If these are indeed license-washing, this website should be added into the black list. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:54, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Delete Images are not the own work of the uploader and may not be the own work of sajed.ir either. I received a note from the uploader on my Wikipedia talk page and replied to them on [their Wikipedia talk page]. I notice on the "uploads by new users page" that this account is marked as having received a final warning. Ellin Beltz (talk) 21:03, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Ellin Beltz: I want to use {{PD-Iran}}, etc. for these pictures.Hananeh.M.h

@Hananeh.M.h: These are recent images, so these criteria do not apply here. Anyway, you need to know who is the photographer, when the pictures were taken, etc. Regards, Yann (talk) 14:02, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Yann: No! this person was died in 1982 about 33 years ago! so this pictures that were took more than 30 years ago!

According to Article 16 from Law for the Protection of Authors, Composers and Artists Rights :In the following cases images fall into public domain after 30 years from the date of publication or public presentation: Photographic or cinematographic works Hananeh.M.h

@Hananeh.M.h: You need at least to fix the description of each picture: author and date. Thanks, Yann (talk) 10:29, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the text of the law itself (in a mediocre translation), it appears that photos are only in the public domain if they were published more than 30 years ago, or if the photographer (not the subject) died before 1980. Otherwise, the term is 50 years after the death of the photographer. You need either something to show they were actually published (before 1985), or to know who the photographer is (and when they died) to show these are PD. The website (from what I can tell, not actually reading the language) doesn't give any indication of any of that, and it really can't just be assumed. Revent (talk) 01:59, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Info Related: Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Hananeh.M.h. Gunnex (talk) 22:36, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: INeverCry 02:46, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]