The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that
Albany,
New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms(coat of arms pictured) that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist?
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Working Will aim to complete this review in the next few days (definitely faster than the
Albany, NY review). –Grondemar 03:18, 1 October 2010 (UTC)reply
File:Coat of arms of Albany statue.jpg—this appears to be a 3D representation of a coat of arms, and per the article text has unique design elements that aren't part of the coat of arms. I don't believe a photo of that can be considered free-use unless the designer, Hy Rosen per the caption, released the statue under a free license. I'll ask one of the image experts for a second opinion on this one.
Otherwise, I have no issue with any other part of the article; I'll pass the article as a Good Article once the issue with the image is resolved.
I can send a message to one of the image experts at FAC since that seems to be the only issue holding it up. I know it's a question of freedom of panorama, which I don't think is allowed for statues under U.S. law. I'll check with someone on that.
WizardmanOperation Big Bear 16:36, 25 October 2010 (UTC)reply
File:Coat of arms of Albany statue.jpg seems to be an interesting case for the differentiation of blason (definition) and emblazon (representation): what we have here is a 3D representation. It is original; it does not resemble any previous representations. Therefore, the statue is entitled to copyright protection. It does not need a copyright notice since this was in the public after 1977. Derivatives of this work, such as this photograph, will have to consider Rosen's copyright; unless he places his work in the public domain or releases it under a scheme compatible with Wikimedia's interpretation of "free", the photograph could be considered a violation of his right. It might be possible to use this image as fair use; the article talks of the statue (in comparison to previous representations). It has to be first reduced in resolution (~100,000 pixels in total size, although this is subjective) to comply with
WP:NFCC as well.
Jappalang (
talk) 22:28, 26 October 2010 (UTC)reply
As for the review, I've now fixed the image, and since that was the only outstanding issue, I'm passing this as a GA (I see that Grondemar hasn't been that active the past few weeks so I'll just do this).
WizardmanOperation Big Bear 03:30, 30 October 2010 (UTC)reply
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