Commons:Deletion requests/Historical images of Syracuse wihtout author name

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Historical images of Syracuse without author name

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There was a mass upload of images of Syracuse (Italy) taken from other websites, often marked as "unknown author" and "unknown year", then marking them as Pd-Old (!) or Pd-Italy. Pd-Italy is accepted only in Wikipedia in Italian, and it is VERY controversial, limiting copyright to 20 years only to images devoid of ANY artistic value... which most of the images listed here are not, since they meet the threshold of originality. In other cases (eg here) an author name is given, but the uploader is not the author. To keep the image, the uploader needs to provide the author's ticket/permission. Another group is by photographer Angelo Maltese who died in 1978, and whose artistic quality is self-evident. I suggest that these images be moved to Wikipedia Italy, and deleted from WikiCommons, where different criteria apply User:G.dallorto (talk) 23:47, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Added on the 27th: I am discussing with the uploader to have her ask for a donation to WikiCommons of at least those images whose copyright owner is known. --User:G.dallorto (talk) 20:02, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted -FASTILY 21:56, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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