Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Calgary, Alberta.svg

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File:Flag_of_Calgary,_Alberta.svg

Possible copyright violation Svgalbertian (talk) 07:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The white hat contained in the flag is highly sylized and could be copyrightable by the City of Calgary. History on the flag here.--Svgalbertian (talk) 07:14, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The official history was at The City of Calgary: Welcome to Calgary - Flag per http://web.archive.org/web/20080608191651/http://www.calgary.ca/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_104_0_0_35/http;/content.calgary.ca/CCA/City Hall/About Calgary/ Welcome to Calgary/Welcome to Calgary.htm#flag, but I don't see evidence that the 1983 creators of the flag, Yvonne Fritz and Gwin Clarke, contributed it to the public domain or using any sort of free license, or that (referring to COM:L#Canada) publications of the City of Calgary acquire Crown copyright. COM:L#Canada basically says 50 years pma for non-photographs when the authors are known. There is the prior art issue, however, with the white hat on the Flag of Calgary. Morris Smith (an ignorant immigration officer's name[1] for the company's creator Morris Shumiatcher, who was in business in 1919 (not w:Morris Shumiatcher, born 1917), created the white hat for Smithbilt Hats in 1926 (per Smithbilt Hats and Smithbilt Hats Ltd. custom hatter since 1919 in Calgary, Alberta Canada. - About Smithbilt Hats), which forms the basis for the stylized white hat in this file, and he died in 1958 per Smithbilt Hats and The Shumiatcher Saga, by Brian Brennan, Calgary Herald, March 8-10, 1997, so images of Calgary-related white hats per se went out of copyright at the end of 2008 because their creator, Morris Smith, died in 1958. — Jeff G. ツ 10:27, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: A white stetson hat is not what can be copyrighted, but the highly sylized drawing of it seen on the flag could be. The city uses that drawing for other purposes, for example it is the favorite icon for calgary.ca.--Svgalbertian (talk) 17:18, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The flag itself is also protected by trademark, application number 0900281 --Svgalbertian (talk) 17:47, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Jcb (talk) 17:33, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]