Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Winston Churchill.jpg
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Image:Winston_Churchill.jpg[edit]
This image is {{PD-US-not renewed}} in the U.S. However, "J. Russell & Sons" was a British studio.[1] (Apparently the started business in Chichester, but later moved to London.) Their chief photographer at the time this image was taken was Walter Stoneman.[2] The UK National Portrait Gallery has a similar photo [3]. Maybe our image was taken at the same session (observe the papers on the table, and the bright thing in the background left). If so, the photographer was Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980). I don't believe this image is PD in general. This British work should be moved back to the English Wikipedia, but it should not reside here with this U.S.-only PD-claim, and it should not be used in so many Wikipedias under this U.S.-only claim. Lupo 13:05, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
- I think you are right; good work researching. Without any indication of being copyright expired or otherwise free in country of origin, this should be assumed to be copyright expired for USA only (hm, perhaps we should have something like a PD-US-only tag some day?), ok for en:Wikipedia but not Commons. -- Infrogmation 14:53, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, having such a tag on en-WP would be good. There's already en:Template:PD-US-1923-abroad... here at the Commons, we don't need such a tag; just making sure the PD-US tags are applied only to U.S. works should be good enough. Lupo 21:02, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Deleted; not free enough. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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