Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Edinburgh Ale by Hill & Adamson c1844.png

File:Edinburgh Ale by Hill & Adamson c1844.png, not featured edit

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Info created by Hill & Adamson - uploaded & nominated by User:scewing -- Scewing (talk) 06:37, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Perhaps the first photograph of men drinking beer. 1844 salt print from a paper negative by Hill & Adamson, who produced the first substantial body of self-consciously artistic work using the newly invented medium of photography.
Support -- Scewing (talk) 06:37, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T (talk) 12:05, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support A high quality scan of a salt print - that's great. How did you "harvest" the image? Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 23:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Katarighe (Talk) 00:16, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Question – From its source credit, this file was apparently harvested from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website. According to the museum's rights statement, its files are *not* public domain. So I must ask: is this file valid for use on Commons? SteveStrummer (talk) 01:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Here you go Steve: Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#The_position_of_the_WMF. So yes. The orginal is obviously in the public domain and the opinion of certain entities on the question of copyright for digital reproductions is remedied by the WMF's statement. Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 03:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Abstain – One's own image of this photograph would obviously be OK, but I would have thought that this particular file, virtually unchanged from its unique rendering by MoMA professionals, would be considered an individual and copyrightable object. But if admins consider the WMF statement to be a peg strong enough to hang a Featured Picture upon, then do carry on. SteveStrummer (talk) 16:05, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The Wikimedia Foundation is very firm in their stance that this type of image is in the public domain. See User:Dcoetzee/NPG legal threat Scewing (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support--Stu Phillips (talk) 02:56, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cathy Richards (talk) 19:09, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 6 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 07:31, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]