Commons:Deletion requests/File:Stamp-GB Machin 4d red.jpg

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File:Stamp-GB Machin 4d red.jpg

Per https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/United_Kingdom#Stamps this 1969 stamp should be free but the designer Arnold Machin only died in 1999 and this profile remains under copyright IMO. See en:File:Arnold Machin Elizabeth II coinage portrait.jpg which is non free Gbawden (talk) 10:59, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

British stamps are Crown Copyright which has expired for this one. The terms are given in the licence on the page. The image you have linked is a completely different work. Philafrenzy (talk) 11:09, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

I still believe that the underlying sculpture - the Machin Head - is non free Gbawden (talk) 11:20, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

•  Keep The Crown Copyright overrules any artists rights, when the stamp is designed, rights are transferred to the government, as is the rule in many jurisdictions. Coins are 3d objects and the rights belong to the person taking the image because of creativity in lighting and the angle of the camera. --RAN (talk) 12:27, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Keep: actually the Machin stamp are based on this freely licenced 3D sculptural portrait File:Elizabeth II Machin series stamps sculpture.jpg and not on the coin image as claimed by the nominator. There is a distinct possibility the coin's image may well be based on this sculpture. Ww2censor (talk) 13:47, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

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Kept: per discussion. --Ellywa (talk) 15:23, 4 October 2022 (UTC)