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Files in Category:Anton Wendling

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There is no freedom of panorama in Germany for works of art photographed from the inside of a building. Common rules (70 years after the dead of the artist) applies. Anton Wendling died in 1965 => still copyrighted until 2035.

Kathisma (talk) 03:11, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is not really art. It is an interpretation of old coat of arms.--Symposiarch (talk) 10:06, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Das sind Bischofswappen, für die sollte das gleiche gelten wie für alle anderen kirchlichen Wappen. Ein Fensterbild davon ist noch keine Neuschaffung davon!
This are Coat of arms from the Bishop of Mainz.
Gruß kandschwar (talk) 15:23, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This is precisely the point. You must remember that the representation of a CoA is a blazon interpreted in image. The blazon (things represented in the CoA) is free of rights, though its usage can be legally restricted. But the interpretation in image is a work of art in the sense of intellectual property. In Germany, all graphic works are considered as works of art (UrhG §2.1.4) and protected by copyright, excepted in some very precise cases. In the current matter, thee of these exceptions could have been raised :
  • Freedom of Panorama : excepted that it applies only to works permanently exposed outside builings and observable from public space. (UrhG §59)
  • Emblems (seals/CoA/flags), as works created by the administration : excepted that it applies only to emblems of public bodies (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts), not of private persons (and bishops are private persons, not public institutions) (UrhG §5)
  • Originality threshold: could be invoked only for simple lettering or elementary geometry, not for an elaborated stained glass.
As none of these restrictions can be applied, the copyright protection remains. Kathisma (talk) 22:23, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Die Fensterbilder sollten erhalten bleiben, Kandschwar sollte sich wenn nötig die Genehmigung über das Bischöfliche Ordinariat Mainz einholen.--Ekpah (talk) 11:14, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted per Kathisma as COM:FOP#Germany does not apply and as all these stained glass works are eligible for copyright. Even if the blazons are free due to their age, their new artistic emblazonments are not, see COM:COA. We would need the permission of the heirs of the artist Anton Wendling to keep or restore them. --AFBorchert (talk) 23:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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