User talk:Pbkashwin

Image tagging for Image:Astadev.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Astadev.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 13:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I notice you edited the image description page to say: "This picture is available in all the shops selling photos of Hindu Gods & Goddess in South India. This picture is sold in these places. There is no copyright involved for this picture as it is not registered." Unfortunately this is not a sufficient explanation. In fact, under U.S. and international copyright law (Berne Convention), no registration is required for copyright. If the subject of the image is traditional and free of copyright, the copyright to this specific image most likely belongs to the person who painted it, or, if it was done as a work for hire, to the person who commissioned it (such as the shop owner). Assuming this is a scan of an image you bought yourself, you probably only bought the single image, not the right to make and distribute copies, unless the deal specifically included it.

Of course, if the image was drawn with the intent to slavishly and accurate reproduce an uncopyrighted original, rather than to creatively interpret a common theme, then under U.S. copyright law it may be ineligible for copyright. However, this specific exception only exists under U.S. law, and it is not clear (to me at least) whether it applies to works created outside the U.S. at all. In any case, to resolve such legal issues we would need to know exactly where and how you obtained the image; you have not done this, so I have deleted it per CSD I4. You may, of course, reupload it or ask for it to be undeleted if you can provide a valid claim that you own the copyright to the image or that it is uncopyrightable, including detailed information about its source. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:25, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]