Template talk:Non-free stamp

Identify the source?

I notice that back in January 2006 JYolkowski added the following line to the bottom of this template: To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

I don't have a problem with the first part of that statement, but I object to the request that the uploader include "the source of the work and copyright information." As images tagged with this template are by definition stamps, the rightsholder is always going to be the nation that issued the stamp. But more to the point, it is unnecessary to ask the uploader to identify the source of the actual image. Just as there is no need to identify the source of images of two-dimentional art that is in the public domain (see Template:PD-art), there is no need to identify the source of the image for the stamp. The copyright subsists in the original object only (the stamp or the old painting), it does not subsist in the image of the object. I hesitate to change a template that others have been working on, and perhaps there is some policy that I'm unaware of, but please think about this. Crypticfirefly 01:28, 14 September 2007 (UTC)