Commons:Deletion requests/File:Srinivasa Ramanujan - OPC - 2 (cleaned).jpg

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File:Srinivasa Ramanujan - OPC - 2 (cleaned).jpg

No clear license. Photo not taken by Jacobs but rather collected by Jacobs. Follow the hyperlink and reach https://opc.mfo.de/ which states "The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach gGmbH (MFO) owns the copyright to many of the images used on this website. Those images can be used in low resolution (as displayed on this website) on the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany. IMPORTANT: The Creative Commons License is not applicable for images to which the MFO does not own the copyright. If the copyright is owned by a third party, you must obtain a separate permission to use it, regardless if it is low resolution or high resolution. To be sure, please inform yourself beforehand on the copyright situation by asking at photos@mfo.de." There are only 5 or 6 pictures of Ramanujan, and the good ones have copyright claims. See discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Srinivasa_Ramanujan/Archive_1#Lede_Image Furthermore, this image may have been previously deleted: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Ramanujan.jpg Glrx (talk) 17:18, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to [1] it is his passport photo. Given that Ramanujan died in 1920, this appears to be public domain under {{PD-India}} or maybe {{PD-UK-Unknown}}. David Eppstein (talk) 19:04, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@David Eppstein: This image is not the passport photo. This image is a derivative work of the passport photo, and that derivative work has significant improvements so it would have its own copyright. See https://twitter.com/stevenstrogatz/status/1556630568422481921 . The derivative work would have been done after the passport photo was obtained in 1937 by Chandrasekhar. The image on Commons is also not the same that the Royal Society used. Glrx (talk) 17:04, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Image restoration is de minimis for copyright purposes. David Eppstein (talk) 17:21, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as per David Eppstein. Yann (talk) 08:43, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Eppstein's rationale. The image is guaranteed to be dated prior to Ramanujan's death in 1920, at any rate. --NoonIcarus (talk) 12:50, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: per David Eppstein. --IronGargoyle (talk) 18:56, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]