Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Kuwait Towers

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Files in Category:Kuwait Towers

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The conclusion of Commons:Village pump/Copyright#Kuwait and FOP is that there's no freedom of panorama in Kuwait, even in the 2019 copyright law of the country. This tower was designed by Malene Bjørn (who died in 2016) and completed in 1979. In most countries, all paintings, sculpture, architecture, text, and other creative works have copyrights which last for a certain period of time after the death of the creator (be it the last-surviving architect, engineer, designer, sculptor, engraver, or painter). An image of a work that is still under copyright is a derivative work, and infringes on the copyright so that we cannot usually keep the image on Commons. In some countries, there is a special exception to the copyright law which allows such images under certain circumstances. We call that exception Commons:Freedom of panorama (FoP). Sadly, Kuwait has no Commons-applicable FoP. The most used file may be transferred to enwiki and Arabic Wikipedia under relevant fair use style tags (e.g. w:Template:FoP-USonly for enwiki's case).

JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 23:56, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. --Missvain (talk) 18:56, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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