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Sure you can nominate "legally", but why are you doing it? Too many major paintings to keep up with. Matisse? His goldfish images? Many of these and others are subjects of their own articles, and thus non-replaceable illustrations. As for the many André Derain images, they will all be out of copyright in early September (70 years after Derain's death). Anyway, too many at once, and some are classics. Not understanding why you want to do this. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:52, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

US copyright law is based on publication, not date of death of the author. I have been linking to the relevant policy in each of my nominations, I think. (See Wikipedia:Public_domain#Publication.) Is it unclear to you? If these should be changed into fair use images, they would have to be downscale appropriately and new tags added.

My first nomination noted that Commons is very cavalier about the actual requirements of US copyright law. Are we also cavalier about the requirements of US copyright law?

I noticed this because I was researching public domain art to use for covers for standard ebooks. Standard Ebooks is strict about their interpretation of US copyright law, and I noticed that we have a lot of potential copyright violations. That's how I got here. grendel|khan 22:53, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You chose some of the most renowned Matisse paintings to test your theory. The ones that have articles should definitely be tagged with a fair use reasoning (maybe you can do that to them and others before nominating them). As for the number, putting up so many deletion noms in a day or two really loads the system in the deletioners favor, as most editors won't have the time to go through each one. Anyway, Wikipedia's entirely accepted fair use provisions should keep the Matisse's you've nommed, and I would ask you to reconsider with an eye towards adding fair use templates to those which have articles. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:32, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's worth taking this to a broader forum. (Fair use involves a specific rationale for each article the picture is used in, as well as using a minimal portion of it, and a serious consideration of the necessity of its use. It's not a simple substitution.) See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#The_copyright_policy_for_paintings_is_not_taken_seriously.. grendel|khan 14:51, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Again, please upload these permissions for fair use (not required but since you want to delete famous paintings with articles I think you'd want to save a few with fair use templates, no?). Randy Kryn (talk) 13:07, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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