Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with deepcat:"America the Beautiful Quarters"

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Files found with Special:Search/deepcat:"America the Beautiful Quarters"

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Each of the nominated coin sides was designed by a Artistic Infusion Program contractor. For reasons explained at Commons:Determining if U.S. coins are free to use, coins designed by Artistic Infusion Program contractors are not freely usable. For information on how this determination was made, please see User:Mysterymanblue/U.S. Coins with known copyright statuses#America the Beautiful quarters.

 Mysterymanblue  05:08, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not yet convinced, that there is a valid, enforced copyright. On the US Mint website I found a number of policies, stating "The United States Mint will not object to use of the obverse or reverse design of the ..." with regard to designs of several coins and series of coins (e.g. [1]). While I have not found one regarding the "America the beautiful quarter" series, I would suggest to ask the US mint specifically for their opinion on the designs in question. Mere deduction from the legalese in the tender for designs to artists should not be enough to delete. --h-stt !? 13:36, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
A "valid" copyright certainly exists because these coins were not designed by employees of the United States federal government in the course of their official duties, and copyright protection in the United States is automatic and applies from the moment a work is fixed in a tangible medium. Whether a copyright is "enforced" doesn't really matter, because under the precautionary principle, "The copyright owner will not mind" is not a valid reason to keep a file on Commons. We cannot just discount the AIP contract as "legalese" because it is legally binding and clearly assigns rights in the designs to the mint. (Under 17 U.S. Code § 105(a), "the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment".) The U.S. mint's design use policy is an interesting case, but as you pointed out, you could not find one that applies to the America the Beautiful coins; that's because it doesn't exist (you can see a list of the mint's design use policies here). You are free to contact the U.S. mint and ask them to release these coin designs into the public domain or under a free license, but unless we can show a reason that these works are freely usable, they must be deleted.  Mysterymanblue  20:42, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all. I don't ordinarily support bulk delete nominations because the majority of bulk delete nominations actually consist of individual files that have intrinsically unique properties of their own that should be dealt individually. So, when reviewed individually, some deserve keeping while others clearly not. But this time it's different, because this is one of those very rare occasions when a bulk delete does make sense as it applies to all equally. For example, none of these coin art designs were wholly drawn by US federal employees; nor there exists straight-forward, unequivocal and clear evidence that these are in the PD. When we have to consider asking the US Mint directly it's because there's already enough doubt to believe it should not be kept.Mercy11 (talk) 16:18, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: Per nomination including the essay Commons:Determining if U.S. coins are free to use. The terms of use on the website of the US Mint state ‘’Coin and medal designs may be based on sources that are copyrighted and licensed to the United States Mint or otherwise used with permission. In some cases, such designs may themselves be covered by third-party copyrights assigned to the United States Mint. Numismatic designs may also contain third parties’ other proprietary material, trademarks, or logos licensed or provided to the United States Mint for limited purposes. Reuse of such designs may require permission of the rights owner.’’ There is a possibility these coins are copyrighted. Consequently, the uploader – or any other Commons user - has to show per COM:EVID that the image can be used with an acceptable licence. This has imho not been done in this case. So therefore these images must be deleted. --Ellywa (talk) 22:19, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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