Commons:Deletion requests/File:Germany visa 1991.jpg
1) The Polish copyright notice currently in place does not apply since this is not a work by a Polish author
2) The item could be tagged as being in the public domain, with the quoted law being §5 UrhG. The law states that:
- (1) Laws, regulations, public ordinances and notices as well as (court) decisions and official guidelines explaining such decisions enjoy no copyright.
This clearly does not apply, as the visa sticker is none of the above.
- (2) The same is true for other public works, which have been published explicitly to inform the public, with the caveat that the regulations regarding prohibition of change and citation of source of §62 Abs. 1 and §63 apply to these works.
It is very questionable whether a visa sticker is a publication whose purpose is primarily to information of the public, as they are made primarily to inform police and immigration of a person's immigration status are are extremely rarely made public knowledge. Even if one would go as far as to assert that such is the case, we still have to add a note in the copyright tag that the work may not be altered as per §62 UrhG.
Btw : The same will also apply to various other images tagged in the same way, which may have to be deleted as well.
Travelbird (talk) 09:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Keep
This is my own scan of my own visa in my own passport (from my own drawer in my own cabinet), which is 19 years old and out of date. This is not a work of art, this visa is expired for a long time, this is just historical documentation of ineligible piece of paper. We can use other Public Domain-tag, what we want, for instance {{PD-ineligible}} or whatever. Julo (talk) 11:26, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Deleted. Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 02:35, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
