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•  Info In 2017 another photo of this cosplay model, Galina Zhukovskaya, became a featured picture (Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Ciri Cosplay (The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt) • 2.jpg). Created by Victoria Romanova (Flickr) - uploaded by Александр Мотин - nominated by Александр Мотин -- Александр Мотин (talk) 16:37, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Александр Мотин (talk) 16:37, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Question Is there a good reason why the plant is "growing" out of her head? Otherwise, a nice picture, but her face is not as sharp as I would like. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
  • Perhaps there is some creative idea in this --Александр Мотин (talk) 17:02, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Comment Whenever the skin of a person in a photo has a porcellain-like appearance, the skin-smoothing went to far. Now, in this case, the effect might be intended, but otherwise it's a sign of the image being overprocessed. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 04:06, 25 December 2021 (UTC) 
•  Oppose Distracting background. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:46, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Ikan and King of Hearts. --SHB2000 (talk) 22:41, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose per above. Not one of the greatest photos on the site. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:17, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Abstain as I now do with this sort of image because I don't believe any cosplay of a copyrighted character can be a free image. Daniel Case (talk) 07:34, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment Doesn't seem like it should be, but I don't know what the laws are. If someone takes a photo of me wearing a Superman shirt, do they have to pay royalties to DC Comics if they sell the photo? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:55, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Ikan Kekek: I do agree that US law is not yet clear on this (the wording of the "costuming" tag on the picture is enough indication of that). But I can't see how the three-dimensional artwork of a movie/TV/comic book/videogame character's distinct costume as long as that is not everyday wear (like, I don't think cosplaying as characters from The Office—which I've seen people do—is really going to trigger a copyright suit since the way the characters dress is composed entirely of off-the-rack useful articles) is any different from a three-dimensional public artwork like a sculpture not protected under FoP, especially after the Supreme Court's Star Athletica decision a few years back. Daniel Case (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

I think there is a difference between taking a picture of a person wearing certain clothes vs. copying the actual clothes themselves, just as Ets-Hokin v. Skyy Spirits notes that there is a difference between a bottle and a label on the bottle. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:13, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

@King of Hearts: Well, Star Athletica is a Supreme Court decision that goes more to the point here (although it is the same general principle, that purely aesthetic elements of product design are copyrightable), and also as a Supreme Court decision takes precedence over a Ninth Circuit decision. To be fair, it does not seem like this issue has been directly tested yet. But I can't imagine a ruling going any other way. Daniel Case (talk) 19:10, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Oppose Nice photo but feels too much like a snapshot, background is cluttered Cmao20 (talk) 17:46, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:14, 29 December 2021 (UTC)