Commons:Deletion requests/File:Kim-Jong-un.jpg

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File:Kim-Jong-un.jpg

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It's a photo and not a "document of State management such as ordinance, decision or directive, current news and bulletins". Therefore general PD-old rule should apply, and as of now the photo is copyrighted. Blacklake (talk) 14:16, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try trawling through the copyright laws to see if I can find anything that covers official photos. Lord British (talk) 15:47, 14 June 2011 (UTC) [EDIT:] Looks like this might apply, because this photograph is freely available online (I've found it in multiple places already just by Googling "Kim-Jong-un"). I know that the second point seems to be the focus of the box, but I don't see how the third can possibly limit its free distribution once it is on Wikipedia. Lord British (talk) 15:55, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Public domain Copyright Law[1] of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Article 32[2]:

A copyrighted work may be used without the permission of the copyright owner, in the following cases:

  • [...]When a copyrighted work is quoted,
  • When a copyrighted work is performed free of charge,
  • When a copyrighted work in public places is copied.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-commercial, non-profit organization, and thus the respective copyrighted work, created within North Korea (with legal jurisdiction north of the 38th parallel only), is permitted for use on all of the Wikimedia Foundation projects.

  1. ↑ Translated English version
  2. ↑ Original version in Korean
I think this provision is Democratic People's Republic of Korea's equivalent to fair use, but not a free license. --Blacklake (talk) 10:31, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, you might have a point. It would be best to get some sort of clarification first to see if this equivalent is against WP:FU. Lord British (talk) 19:35, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: reuse only free of charge (e.g. educational use) is fair use and not allowed on Commons. We had the template that you wrote above in Commons:Deletion_requests/Template:CopyrightedFreeUse-DPRK. See also Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:CopyrightedFreeUse-DPRK and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:PD-North_Korea as well as a search. Martin H. (talk) 02:01, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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