Commons:Deletion requests/File:Romain Gary.jpg

Sorry, but this is obviously a recent and thereby copyrighted statue, which seems to be located in Lithuania. Regrettably, Lithuania has no freedom-of-panorama exemption from copyright. -- Túrelio (talk) 15:20, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• (Sorry for my poor English) It is possible (Look Commons:Freedom of panorama):

"'Lithuania: Not OKLimited freedom of panorama in Lithuania is granted by article 28 ("Limitations to Copyright in Works of Architecture and Sculptures") of the Law Amending the Law on Copyright and Related Rights. This allows a photographer to make and publish pictures of sculptures and works of architecture that are permanently located in public places (excluding works presented in museums and exhibitions), but they cannot be used commercially in any form. In Wikipedia photo using is NOT COMMERCIAL. So, it is possible to use not only my own, but another persons publicated photo of this this statue too.--Makshes 15:59, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi Makshes, it does not matter that Wikipedia per se is not commercial, as per Commons' policy all uploads must be free for any kind of use, including commercial use. You might check whether your Wikipedia has an exemption policy allowing such kind of images. --Túrelio (talk) 17:49, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Turelio, I am not a big specialist in all law's knowledge, I am only studing; may be it is possible to change just for this file license to a siutable, which forbid commercial use of this controversial file ? In order not to delete it. If You can change it, I'll be very thankful. With respect, --Makshes 18:58, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

No, I am sorry. That is a fundamental WMF policy, something none of us on Commons can simply change. --Túrelio (talk) 19:16, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What is necessary to do for me in order to leave this file ? Please, help me. Thank You. --Makshes 08:12, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

You need 1) to find out who is the sculptor. 2) if he is still living, you might try to contact him and explain him the problem. If he agrees to give a permission that this photo of his work is put under a free license, which would allow any kind of use, then you should prepare a valid permission text, send it to him, ask him to sign it and to sent it back to OTRS. If he is already dead, then it gets complicated as you need to obtain the permission from his heir(s). --Túrelio (talk) 09:02, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. The sculpto is Romualdas Kvintas. I'll try ti contact him. How much time I have to try to save this photo ?--Makshes 12:05, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

That is not a problem. Even if the image would be deleted, any admin can un-delete with 2 clicks.

In order to prepare a valid permission, please see Commons:OTRS (also in other languages, but not in Lithuanian) and OTRS#Declaration of consent for all enquiries. You need to adapt the permission text a bit, as Mr. Kvintas is not the creator of the photo, but of the depicted sculpture. So, the permission must contain the statements 1) that he is the creator of the original sculpture "..." (official name of sculpture) and 2) that he does consent that this photo http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romain_Gary.jpg of his sculpture is released under a free license, which allows any kind (including derivative and commercial use) of the named photography. If Mr. Kvintas does not understand english, you might translate the english text into Lithuanian. If Mr. Kvintas is very old and does not use email, you could print the permission text on paper, send the paper to him and ask him to date it, sign and send it back to you. You can then scan it and email the scan to OTRS. --Túrelio (talk) 12:59, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I shall be in Vilnius in the begining of November. Hope Till November this photo will be not deleted. --Makshes 13:18, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Deleted: There is no FOP in Lithuania FASTILY 10:58, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]