[Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

2011-04-28 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

2011-04-28 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

2011-04-28 Thread Shiju Alex
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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

2011-04-28 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
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).