Commons:Deletion requests/Files in public domain featuring various Indian film artists post-1945

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Files in public domain featuring various Indian film artists post-1945

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Post-1945 images (photos/film stills) from India, which were certainly still in copyright in India at the URAA cut-off date of 1996. Therefore their US term was extended until 95 years after their first publication.

These files subsequently went on to be in public domain in India, since the expiration of copyright in India is 50 years for work published before 1958 (which means, files dating from 1946 to 1957 came in public domain in India from 1996 to 2007) and 60 years for work published from 1958 (which means, files published in 1958 came in public domain in India from 2018, those published in 1959, from 2019 and so on) BUT they continue to be under copyright in the US, since the duration for copyright in the US is of 95 years since the date of publication. Files from India from the year 1946, can only be in public domain in the US from 2042, by earliest)

GaiusAugustine (talk) 09:16, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

nb: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dilip_Kumar_greets_Khan_Abdul_Ghaffar_Khan_at_Meenambakkam_Airport,_Chennai_(c._1960).jpg is not a film still. Murtaza.aliakbar (talk) 23:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
its not about film stills, but about the license used. GaiusAugustine (talk) 08:47, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
noting Yann's comment in Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_public_domain_featuring_actor_Raj_Kapoor, which seems directly related  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:49, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment There seems to be concensus to keep files that are PD in the home country if the only issue is that they might not be PD in the US because of the URAA. --MGA73 (talk) 14:41, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    No, that was a consensus to not mass-delete existing files on the mere suspicion that they may have been affected by the URAA, and established at the time the community first became aware of the URAA and when its effects and applicability was uncertain. New uploads and files that after a specific assessment are in copyright in the US due to URAA restoration (as for any other reason) are incompatible with COM:L and must be deleted, and the validity and applicability of the URAA are no longer in question these days. Xover (talk) 11:39, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delete Since the works in question are in copyright in the US they are not compatible with Commons licensing policy. --Xover (talk) 11:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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