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File:University of Cambridge banner, 800 years of inspiration - geograph.org.uk - 1122162.jpg[edit]
COM:FOP UK - no FOP for 2D graphic works, or in fact impermanent works. -mattbuck (Talk) 18:28, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Keep: I deliberately didn't nominate this when I nominated the rest of the 800th-anniversary banners. Most of the banner is, according to the Final Report of the 800th Anniversary Steering Committee[1] is "A detail of illuminated manuscript from the founding charter of the University". Now this is a little confusing because I don't think the University was founded by charter, but any manuscript from around the University's nominal founding in 1209 is likely to be out of copyright by now. If there's doubt about this I'll see if I can find out where it actually came from. The text "University of Cambridge 800 years 1209-2009" and "800 years of inspiration" are below the threshold of originality, and the University arms in the top left are small enough to be de minimis (noting that the arms themselves are ancient, so it's only this particular realisation that might be in copyright). A declaration of interest: I work for the University of Cambridge, but I'm not speaking for them here (or anywhere on Wikimedia projects). --bjh21 (talk) 09:50, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
Comment: Checking the source[2], it claims that the manuscript is "the first part of the charter of Edward I, dating from 1291/2, confirming the privileges of the University", which I think places it in the public domain. There might be an interesting edge case if it had managed to remain unpublished until 1969, but that would require an understanding of pre-1911 copyright law that I really don't have. --bjh21 (talk) 16:17, 9 April 2020 (UTC)- Comment: A tiny amount of additional research: This is the top-left corner of UA Luard 7*[3], which the University agrees is from 1291/2. --bjh21 (talk) 12:29, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Kept: no valid reason for deletion - Given the age of the charter, I don;t think there is anything here that has a copyright. . Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 21:42, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
