Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Stamps by Gerhard Stauf

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Files selected for this deletion request are designed by Gerhard Stauf and have been marked with {{PD-GDR stamps}}. These scans of stamps have been in limbo for months, and are likely to cause confusion for reusers. With the previous public domain rationale being removed, there is no obvious reason for Wikimedia Commons to continue to host them unless specific exceptions apply. Where the artwork on the stamps are based on public domain old works, there is likely to be a debate over how much creative work exists in the derivative as clearly the designer had to both reduce the image and "clean it" in a way that suits stamp printing methods and display at thumbnail size. In other cases further creative elements are added as decoration to the image.

(talk) 16:16, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted: per nomination. --Jcb (talk) 20:36, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Per Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Germany stamps of Germany are copyrighted until at least 70 years after the artists death. In this case the artist, Gerhard Stauf, died in 1996. So these images are copyrighted until at least 2067.

Adamant1 (talk) 14:12, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Deleted: per nomination. The files can be restored in 2067; the US copyrights will have expired by then as well. --Rosenzweig τ 00:51, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]