Hi everyone,
Here
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madhu_babu_%28Madhusudan_Das%29.jpgis
a Postage stamp of Madhusudan
Dashttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%A7%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%82%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B8which
was tagged for deletion, Can anyone please
Hi Subhashish,
Stamps are Indian govt works and retain copyright for 60 years after issual.
So image of any stamp issued after 1951 cannot be uploaded to commons. It
should be uploaded to the local wiki with a fair use rationale. (and under
fairuse, a stamp cannot be used to identify the subject
I will answer the first question (regarding stamps)
Here
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madhu_babu_%28Madhusudan_Das%29.jpgis
a Postage stamp of Madhusudan
Dashttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%A7%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%82%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B8which
Yes it applies to coins as well. Anything from pre 1951 India is in PD.
Anything post 1951, GOI has the copyright.
But even for old coins, if you take a photo of a single coin you cant claim
copyright and add a CC SA 3.0 license (its like taking a photo of a old
painting and claiming copyright).
I would like to add, that the user in question, asked the community's views
(well in advance), that if it was ok to undertake such an effort. And there
were other editors (including me), constantly checking, proofing,
recategorising and maintaining the articles created. This was no slapdash
Hi Ashwin:
So it is completely incorrect to add any images of Indian stamps printed
later than 1951 to Commons. Fair use rationale is not applicable under
Indian law to the best of my knowledge, anyway with that it cant be loaded
to Commons only concerned Wikipedia. And unless the article is
