File talk:Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.jpg
This image was nominated for deletion on the Commons:Deletion requests, but it was kept. The debate follows:
Image:Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.jpg[edit]
Not a work of the U.S. federal government, and therefore, the PD rationale given is not valid. The image is tagged as PD because it came from state.gov, but I find it hard to believe that a U.S. State Department employee was assigned to paint a positive-looking portrait of the enemy. --Jiang 02:02, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- In Japan, the copyright is 50 years iirc. It could be PD if the author died before 1956. I agree with you about the positive-looking aspect of this picture. I found a version where one can see a japanese signature (?) : [1].. if someone is able to tell what's written. Note that the NationalGeographic tagged the picture as Photograph courtesy U.S. Naval Historical Center. Dake 21:58, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
![[1]](http://corvalliscommunitypages.com/images_sounds/yamamoto2.jpg){kind=link}
Keep This is PD. The USN's National Historical Center states that this is an official portrait of Yamamoto painted by Shugaku Homma, on 1943. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h79000/h79462kc.
Article 6 of the old copyright law states:
- Article 6. Copyright in a work published or publicly performed under the name of a governmental or public agency, school, shrine or temple, association, company or any other organization as its author shall endure for thirty years from the time of such publication or public performance. [2]
As an official portrait commissioned by the Imperial government of Japan, this portrait became public domain on 1973. -Mak 00:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Other copies If it is decided that deletion is correct, then the uncropped copy I unploaded should also be deleted. Image:Yamamoto official portrait NH 79462.jpg -Mak 16:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
