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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)

::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)

::Of the six images in the related category [[:Category:Austrian public ___domain photographs]], only one would clearly qualify as a "Lichtbild". '''None''' of these images are in the public ___domain in Austria!

::*[[:Image:1heldeplatz.jpg]] clearly a "Lichtbild''werk''"

::*[[:Image:WilhelmMiklas.jpg]] clearly a "Lichtbild''werk''"

::*[[:Image:WilhelmMiklasPic.jpg]] clearly a "Lichtbild''werk''"

::*[[:Image:Karl-renner.jpg]] not a head shot, lighting & positioning make this a "Lichtbild''werk''".

::*[[:Image:1ajansa.jpg]] not a head shot; studio portrait. I'm torn on this one, but given the very low creativity threshold ("[http://www.internet4jurists.at/entscheidungen/ogh4_179_01d.htm it suffices that another photographer would have shot a different image"), I would say this is a "Lichtbild''werk''", too.

::*[[:Image:Franz Jonas.jpg]] yes, that's a "Lichtbild": paasport-style photograph. However, from 1974 and thus copyrighted until 2024.

::[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] 09:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

::Also note that the protection for a "Lichtbild" is '''fifty''' years, not thirty. [[User:Lupo|Lupo]] 09:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)