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No! This is '''utterly wrong'''. We had that problem with the German copyright law already. German and Austrian copyright law ("Urheberrechtsgesetz") makes a distinction between "Lichtbild" and "Lichtbildwerk". A "Lichtbildwerk" ia a work, and as such subject to the usual 70 years p.m.a. copyright term. Any photograph that shows even the slightest creativity is in general considered a "Lichtbildwerk". (See this case: [http://www.internet4jurists.at/entscheidungen/ogh4_179_01d.htm Eurobike: OGH, Beschluss vom 12.9.2001, 4 Ob 179/01d].) A "Lichtbild" must be really simple - a frontal portrait photograph (head shot, passport photo) falls into this category. A "Lichtbild" is protected for 50 years after creation, or, if published within that term, for 50 years after the first publication. See [http://www.internet4jurists.at/gesetze/bg_urhg2a.htm#§_73 §74(6)] of the Austrian copyright law. See also [http://www.internet4jurists.at/urh-marken/urh01.htm#Werkarten]. [[User:Lupo|Lupo]] 08:47, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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::At the very least, 3 of the current 6 photographs meet even the most stringent of your criteria to be included, no? [[User:Sherurcij|Sherurcij]] ^{([[User_talk:Sherurcij|talk]]) ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject Terrorism|Terrorist Wikiproject]])} 08:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

{{Taxobox

| color = pink

| name = Bear

| fossil_range = Early [[Miocene]] - Recent

| image = Kodiak_Brown_Bear.jpg

| image_width = 240px

| image_caption = ''Kodiak [[Brown Bear]]''

| regnum = [[Animal]]ia

| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]

| classis = [[Mammal]]ia

| ordo = [[Carnivora]]

| subordo = [[Caniformia]]

| familia = '''Ursidae'''

| familia_authority = [[Johann Fischer von Waldheim|G. Fischer de Waldheim]], 1817

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

''[[Ailuropoda]]''<br />

''[[Helarctos]]''<br />

''[[Melursus]]''<br />

''[[Ursus (genus)|Ursus]]''<br />

''[[Tremarctos]]''<br />

''[[Arctodus]]'' (extinct)

}}

A '''bear''' is a large [[mammal]] in the family '''Ursidae''' of the order [[Carnivora]]. The adjective "'''''ursine'''''" is used to describe things of a bear-like nature. The [[English collective nouns|collective noun]] for a group of them is a ''sleuth''.

==Etymology==

Modern English "''bear''" derives from [[Old English]] "''bera''", which itself derives from [[Proto-Germanic]] "''*beron''" meaning "''the brown one''". (Compare [[Swedish language|Scandinavian]] "''björn''", [[Dutch language|Dutch]] "''beer''" and [[German language|German]] "''Bär''" all meaning "''bear''").

Both [[Greek language|Greek]] ("''arktos''") and [[Latin]] ("''ursus''") have retained the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root word for "bear" ("''*rtko''") but it was ritually replaced in the northern branches of the [[Indo-European languages]] (The [[Germanic languages|Germanic]], [[Baltic languages|Baltic]], [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] and [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] branches) because of the hunters' [[taboo]] on the names of wild animals. For example the [[Irish language|Irish]] word for "''bear''" translated means "''the good calf''", in [[Welsh language|Welsh]] it translates as "''honey-pig''", in [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] it means "''the licker''" and [[Russian language|Russian]] "''медведь''" literally means "''one who leads to honey''".

==Physical attributes==

Common characteristics of bears include a short tail, acute senses of smell and hearing, five non