I am sharing you some old painting and photographs category at commons.<br><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_paintings_in_the_Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_paintings_in_the_Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art</a><br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_images_of_Kolkata">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_images_of_Kolkata</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:17 AM, jayanta nath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jayantanth@gmail.com">jayantanth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Dear sankarrukku Sir,<br>
<br>Hello sir how are you?<br><br>Regarding your comments "<i>we can not upload the photograph of any old Indian painting or sculpture to Wiki Commons</i>.</span></font>" I am just clarifying you that can do that. You you have to prove that those images are <b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i>"old Indian painting or sculpture</i></span></font></b>" by proper source and painter and <font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i>sculpture name.</i></span></font><br>
<br>Just I want to mention that <span lang="en">According to <a href="http://www.education.nic.in/CprAct.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Indian Copyright Act, 1957</a>
(Chapter V Section 25), Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic
works, sound recordings, government works, and works of corporate
authorship or of international organizations enter the public domain 60
years after the date on which they were first published, counted from
the beginning of the following calendar year (ie. as of 2011, works
published prior to 1 January 1951 are considered public domain).
Posthumous works (other than those above) enter the public domain after
60 years from publication date. Any other kind of work enters the public
domain 60 years after the author's death. Text of laws, judicial
opinions, and other government reports are free from copyright.</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Bishakha Datta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com" target="_blank">bishakhadatta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>The follow-up mail to the previous one. Again please cc him on replies.<br>
Bishakha<br><div class="gmail_quote">
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Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:36 PM<br>Subject: Re: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mahasaraswati.jpg<br>To: Bishakha Datta <<a href="mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com" target="_blank">bishakhadatta@gmail.com</a>><br><br>
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Thank you, Bishaka.<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> Posting to the India list would be ideal. But I do not know how to do it.</span></font><br clear="all">
<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div>Sankar <br><br>Service to Humanity is Service to God<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Sankar Viswanathan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sankarrukku@gmail.com" target="_blank">sankarrukku@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Bishaka,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your response to my mail.</div>
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<div>The discussion is still going on. But the dice is loaded in favor of deletion.</div><div><br></div>
<div>There are certain points which were raised in the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Wikipedia
is paranoid about Copyright. Of course this is a result of the U.S law
and any number of cases. There was a time when any image available on
the web was accptable to Wikippedia. I think they had some problems
then. Of course there are some people who take delight in Deletion. Kind
of a sadism.</div>
<div><br></div><div><<So to keep such images in Commons, either
Indian government or Commons needs to have a policy addressing all
pictures for which original authorship is unknown, or at the least about
paintings of God which is widely available. Until then, we can either
assume good faith and keep this image or start a new mass DR for all the
images in the category Hindu deities.>></div>
<div><br></div><div>Indian government will not do anything. But Wiki
Commons can do something. Another thing which is surprising is there is
no assumption of Good faith. I am a volunteer. How do I benefit by the
uploading of the image? Actually most volunteers like me do end up by
spending money, because my internet connection is not free. I do not use
an internet connection provided by any organization. This atitude of
"there is no assumption of Good faith" will put off many people.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I can not imagine anybody from India suing Wikipedia over an obscure painting in a temple.</div><div><br></div><div>Now
they are quoting the U.K law on which the Indian law is modelled to say
that Wall paintings are not covered. This would effectively stop upload
of many of the paintings in temples.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But in India in a public temple, the installed idol
itself is held to be the temple’s legal owner, and the
beneficiaries—those to whom the endowment is dedicated --—are the
general public. Does this change the position? I wonder. I have posted
this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am having another problem with this image. There
is one person called Pebble101 who is bent on deleting this image from
the article.He deleteds it time and again for no reason. He could be the
author of the last unsigned remark on the deletion page.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saraswati&action=history" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saraswati&action=history</a></div><div><br></div><div>The problem is there is nothing I can do. When I had such problems earlier I was asked to go for Arbitration. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I thought I had to share my concerns with some one.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div>Sankar <br><br>Service to Humanity is Service to God<br>
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