Commons:Deletion requests/File:Emblem of Iraq (1959-1965).svg

possible copyvio, belongs to iraqi government, copyright hasn't expired yet Buckaroo bob 91 (talk) 02:09, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, the other Iraqi Emblems are considered to be the copyright of the creator of the SVG image, which, in this case, is AnonMoos. It was made from scratch by AnonMoos, not traced from other images, so AnonMoos owns the copyright of the image. Thespoondragon (talk) 02:49, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep: Buckaroo_bob_91 -- in traditional European heraldry, a coat-of-arms is described by its textual blazon, and anybody can make a new visual depiction of the coat of arms starting with the "blazon", and he or she will then own the copyright to the particular visual depiction which he or she has made (while other people will own the copyrights to their own visual depictions).

It's not exactly the same situation with the Iraqi emblem, but there is some similarity, since it's assembled from various visual elements (star, swords, gear, Arabic text) which individually are not really copyrightable, and which I generated from abstract geometry (or from a computer font for the text), and the end result probably differs in a number of ways from the 1959 official Iraqi government appearance of the symbol (even though I was trying my best to approximate it). In particular, the Arabic text has a strongly different appearance from the quasi-calligraphic text in the official 1959 emblem. I did kind of semi-scan the wheat ear in the center (vectorized it with a rather crude raster-to-vector conversion tool whose output needed significant fix-ups), but I would doubt how closely it resembles the official 1959 depiction... AnonMoos (talk) 04:03, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

•  Keep, even the original 1959 emblem unlikely is under copyright by now. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 09:28, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: no valid reason for deletion. — D Y O L F 77^[Talk] 19:37, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]