Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bahrain manama airport exit.jpg
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Derivative work of a Canadian passport. Stefan4 (talk) 09:25, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
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Comment It's unclear to me what elements of this image would meet the threshold of originality so as to be copyrightable. Not the date, or the text references to the Kingdom of Bahrain and to passport control. Possibly the maple leaf background, but on Commons we do not appear to treat the simple Canadian maple leaf as a copyrighted work. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:26, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Question Is the passport crown-copyright? --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 01:42, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- Presumably yes. Apart from the leaf there are also anti-counterfeit measures. --Stefan4 (talk) 08:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- Nobody has yet answered my question as to what elements in this particular excerpt are copyrightable. It's hard to address the concern without first understanding what it is. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 12:29, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- Presumably yes. Apart from the leaf there are also anti-counterfeit measures. --Stefan4 (talk) 08:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Keep I suppose the reference above to the leaf and the anti-counterfeit measures is the response to my question. If the leaf is a copyrightable element, then every photo we have on Wikipedia of a Canadian maple leaf (including every photo of the Canadian flag) is a derivative image inconsistent with Wikimedia's licensing policy, and we'd end up deleting all of them - I don't think that's correct (and if it is, we need to have a very serious discussion before we declare it as such in this discussion). I don't think (correct me if I am wrong) we've ever reached that determination before. And aren't the anti-counterfeit measures in this image just lines? A series of lines meets the threshold of originality? Are we talking about the cumulative work involving the maple leaf and the lines? I'm not really convinced. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:35, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Kept: All of the above and also that I think the maple leaf is DM here -- it is very hard to make out. . Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 22:27, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
