File:Pirate Flag of Blackbeard (Edward Teach).svg

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English:  Illustration of Blackbeard's Jolly Roger flag. It depicted a skeleton piercing a heart, whilst toasting the devil. Traced from a scanned image of Konstam's book.

Source

Angus Konstam, Blackbeard the Pirate, 2007, page 177

Date

2010

Author

wp:User:Fred the Oyster

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(Reusing this file)

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current22:53, 26 June 2010Thumbnail for version as of 22:53, 26 June 2010512 × 360 (9 KB)Admin (talk | contribs){{delete|reason=To be clear, this is a deletion request for a particular reason of the file, not for deletion of the file itself. I see this as a situation akin to coat of arms; basically, what we have here is a depiction of a 18th century pirate flag, which has been imagined in various details.[http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/pirate-4.jpg][http://www.teachshole.com/battmag.jpg][https://catbirdnyc.com/shop/images/P/_MG_6572.jpg][http://www.the-flag-center.com/store/images/blackbdflag.gif][http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/pirates/bbeard.html][http://www.southportncmagazine.com/pirates_i.html][http://flickr.com/photos/66133329@N00/281096765/] The original version uploaded to here was from Open Clip Art Library, which of course then got sold for personal profits in situations such as [http://shop.cafepress.com/blackbeard%27s-flag this]. Fred the Oyster uploaded the current version on 1 April 2010, and states that it was "traced from a [http://books.google.com/books?id=TdTMkYgOkLYC&pg=P177 scanned image of Konstam's book]", which was published in 2007. It is undoutable that the new version is of better aesthetic quality than the original; however, there seems to be two issues... # the license, attributing the image to Open Clip Art Library, is wrong for this current version; the image is now a derivative of Konstam's version, which leads us to... # I believe Konstam's imagination of the flag is copyrighted per Commons:Coats of Arms; i.e. the definition (a horned skeleton holding a chalice and piercing a heart with a harpoon) is in public domain by age, but representations of this definition can be copyrighted. Thus, I believe the image should be restored to the [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/0/04/20100401123939%21Pirate_Flag_of_Blackbeard_%28Edward_Teach%29.svg first version] (whose author has placed it in public domain), and the [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Pirate_Flag_of_Blackbeard_%28Edward_Teach%29.svg second version] (uploaded on 1 April 2010) deleted. Jappalang (<span class="signature-talk">talk</span>) 04:36, 24 April 2010 (UTC)|subpage=File:Pirate Flag of Blackbeard (Edward Teach).svg|day=24|month=April|year=2010}} {{Information |Description={{en|Illustration of Blackbeard's Jolly Roger flag. It depicted a skeleton piercing a heart, whilst toasting the devil. Traced from a scanned image of Konstam's book.}} |Source=Angus Konstam, Blackbeard the Pirate, 2007, page 177 |Date=2010 |Author=wp:User:Fred the Oyster |Permission={{PD-OpenClipart}} |other_versions= }} Category:Pirate flags Category:Blackbeard Category:Devils Category:Black, red, white flags Category:SVG flags - historical Category:Flags with hearts
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