Hi everybody,
I'm a member of WikiProject Philately.
Uploading images of Indian stamps are forbidden as per Indian Copyright of
1957 :
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).*
See :
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stamps_of_India
Only stamps till 1950 have been added though we could now add the stamps
published in 1951. These are :
Commemoratives
* 2 anna Geological Survey of India
* 2 anna First Asian Games
* 12 anna First Asian Games
Definitives
* 2 and 1/2 anna Bodhgaya Temple
* 4 anna Lingaraja temple
So it is completely incorrect to add any images of Indian stamps printed
later than 1951 to Commons. Fair use rationale is not applicable under
Indian law to the best of my knowledge, anyway with that it cant be loaded
to Commons only concerned Wikipedia. And unless the article is about that
particular stamp, fair use rationale won't work.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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