Commons:Deletion requests/File:RCA CT-100 screenshot.jpg

Derivative work of Paramount's content. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 22:25, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What are you basing this claim on ? Can you provide a link to the original photo at Paramount's website? WikiJunkie (talk) 06:40, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm basing it on the fact that it clearly says Paramount on the image. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 19:46, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep Those 1940s Superman cartoons are PD-US-not renewed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abzeronow (talk • contribs) 15:59, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proof? Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 19:46, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gizmodo article mentions they are public domain https://io9.gizmodo.com/5963049/you-can-now-watch-the-1940s-fleischer-studios-superman-cartoons-online . Also the English Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1940s_cartoons) Abzeronow (talk) 19:58, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yet oddly the Youtube videos in that article have been DMCA'd. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 21:15, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cartoon Brew was source for that Gizmodo article. Said that Warner Brothers had uploaded those videos (they have rights to original negatives) https://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/warners-posts-1940s-fleischer-superman-cartoons-online-73590.html#disqus_thread. Could be that WB took down their own videos. En.wikipedia cites a book when they say it's public domain. I'm open to the possibility that internet and Wikipedia have the wrong info (in which case, it would only become free in 2039 since cartoon could be one of the 1943 ones), but haven't seen evidence that the cartoons themselves are still in copyright either Abzeronow (talk) 17:22, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: per discussion (public domain cartoons), also the title card itself might not be eligible for copyright (PD-Text, I'd say, even if the "Paramount" and "Superman" letterings/logos might be trademarked, but that's a different issue). --Gestumblindi (talk) 20:29, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]