Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Hannah Arendt

Per Commons:WikiProject Public Domain/German stamps review

• File:Hannah Arendt cropped.jpg
• File:Hannah arendt-150x150.jpg

— Racconish ^☎ 09:52, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

These aren't stamps? So I'm not quite sure why they are being nominated under this rationale. I'm still going to take a deeper look but I wanted to note that. --Majora (talk) 06:06, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: Source for the original photograph at the National Portrait Gallery indicates that this was first published in 1987 in the US. I found no record of it ever being registered with the copyright office and therefore the images fall under {{PD-US-1978-89}}. These are not stamps but photographs made into stamps. --Majora (talk) 21:05, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fred Stein died in 1967 and his work has not fallen in the public domain. This photograph was taken in 1944, printed in 1987, and given to Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, which displays it on its web site with a copyright notice. According to the Cornell table, a work created before 1978 and first published in the US between 1978 and 1989 with notice is protected for 70 years pma. Now it can be discussed if the gift to a museum should be considered as a publication. Ii seems the first book publication was the catalog of the French exhibition in 2011 [1] (with copyright to the Fred Stein estate, I checked). If this should be considered as the first publication, then, according to the Cornell table, the copyright length would still be 70 years pma. The photograph is also included as part of a stamp published in Germany in 2006. Germany having signed the Berne convention, if this date should be considered as the date of first publication, the copyright would also be 70 years pma.

• File:Hannah Arendt cropped.jpg
• File:Hannah arendt-150x150.jpg

— Racconish ^💬 17:18, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If your history above being correct, the question will be whether the 1987 printing is considered a publication, and if it is a publication was it with a copyright notice or without (if without then it is 5 years post pub). The tag applied says published without notice. If the first publication is after 1989 then it is a copyright violation.  — billinghurst sDrewth 05:11, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. In any case, the file is culled from the website of the National Portrait Gallery where it does bear a copyright notice. This photograph is part of a portfolio which is copyrighted by Peter Stein, Fred's son [2] [3]. Here is a 1983 letter on NPG's take on Peter Stein's attempt to preserve and promote his late father's work. — Racconish ^💬 05:45, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I just found a crop of this photo was used on the cover of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's Why Arendt Matters, published in 2006 by Yale University Press. The copyright notice in the book credits "Fredstein.com". Should this be considered as the first publication, the copyright length would still be 70 years pma. — Racconish ^💬 06:56, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note : I have contacted the uploader on his home wiki. He does not object to the deletion [4]. — Racconish ^💬 09:54, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. --Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:18, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]