Commons:Deletion requests/Wax figures

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Wax figures[edit]

Wax sculptures are sculptures and are subject to copyright. Photos of wax sculptures are derivative works.

See also:

--Isderion (talk) 20:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The following files are also of wax statues:

The first two are in London; the last is in Hong Kong. Pruneautalk 15:19, 3 February 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

After reading the previous deletion requests for the statues, what constitutes "permanent"? If a cafe erects a sculpture, which the owner says it is going to be there forever, and the cafe was torn down 5 years later due to a government reconstruction plan, is that "permanent"? The Kingmaker exhibit at Warwick Castle, File:Warwick prepping for Barnet.jpg has been around since 1995; is it permanent? Jappalang (talk) 05:59, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
According to Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Permanent_vs_temporary, what matters is the intention. In your cafe example, the intention was to have the sculpture there permanently, so FOP would apply. Pruneautalk 14:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Symbol delete vote.svg Delete, all per Commons:Deletion requests/Madame Tussauds and Commons:Deletion requests/Wax figures at Tussauds. Exception only for those figures realy intended to be placed permanently according to MichaelMaggs comment in Commons:Deletion requests/Wax figures at Tussauds. I also like to add the following:

File:Estatua Vma08.jpg, File:Britney-Spears Estatua.jpg, File:Julia Roberts (1).jpg, File:Shirley Bassey wax sculpture.jpg, File:AnitaMuiStatue.jpg, File:EHemingway.JPG, File:Eminem01.png, File:Johnny Sparrow.jpg.
The Anita mui statue picture is staying. Her statue was already on public display. She is deceased and no free image have surfaced. The choice was non-free image of mui, or a free image of the statue. Also please do not assume these copyright laws from other Madame Tussaud museums are the same as the HK and shanghai museums. Benjwong (talk) 05:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Not nominated but unsure about:

File:HK MadameTussaudsHK BruceLee.JPG

and Wax figures from other locations, probably they are also artwork:

File:Wax karim khan.jpg, File:Ratana Pestonji.jpg, File:Jonny Wilkinson Statue - Trafalgar Square - London, England - October 19th 2007..jpg (public place, but not permanently), File:AjahnMun.JPG... and probably a lot more.

--Martin H. (talk) 19:14, 4 May 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Symbol delete vote.svg Delete Hi, I am here to talk only about File:EHemingway.JPG, which was uploaded by me. I had taken this in NY and did not know about COM:FOP status in United States. I would request an admin to go ahead and delete the photograph I uploaded and run a commons de-linker bot to clean it up from various wikis (if anyone else found it useful). I know about the ml wiki usage, which I have already removed from. Martin, thank you for pointing it out. --Jyothis (talk) 21:38, 4 May 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Um, why does copyright paranoia string to mind?Dr. Blofeld (talk) 16:33, 5 May 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
For the NY wax figures (Hemingway): they are unfree, no dispute. For adding one of your images here: The discussion is ongoing, the reason is the same, so why not adding images with the same concern? --Martin H. (talk) 16:37, 5 May 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Pictogram voting comment.svg Comment I would like to add File:Tupac Shakur.jpg for deletion. --Karppinen (talk) 16:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Deleted, permanent status is disputed / FOP not in museums. Kameraad Pjotr 13:48, 26 June 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Some files restored, as per [1]. Yann (talk) 19:16, 26 February 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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