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Description

Sri Lalita Tripurasundari
Source

Popular religious art print (c. 1920-1930) without copyright notice, purchased by uploader in antique lot of assorted early deity prints, and electronically scanned and color-enhanced to counteract extreme wash-out/fading.
Date

c. 1920-1930
Author

Print appears signed in lower right corner, but name illegible.
Permission
(Reusing this image)

Public domain; also non-profit educational use of an print originally designed as ephemera (calendar art) for devotional (i.e. not commercial or proprietary) use, from an original, non-copyrightable artwork in the public domain.

This image is exempted from copyright protection under the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, as amended: "52. (1) The following acts shall not constitute an infringement of copyright, namely [...] (t) the publishing of a painting, drawing, engraving or photograph of a sculpture, or other 'artistic work' {defined as "a painting, a sculpture, a drawing [...], an engraving or a photograph, whether or not any such work possesses artistic quality [... and] any other work of artistic craftsmanship} permanently situate in a public place or any premises to which the public has access," including religious establishments.

Also under section 52 this is "a fair dealing with [an] artistic work for the purposes of" non-profit educational usage "in a collection, mainly composed of non-copyright matter, bona fide intended" for educational usage.
Other versions similar religious art proliferates

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Public domain This image is in the public domain in India because its term of copyright has expired.
  • Indian copyright act applies in India, to images first published in India.
  • According to The Indian Copyright Act, 1957, all photographs and sound recordings enter the public domain after sixty years counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (ie. as of 2007, prior to 1-January-1947) after they were first published.
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current22:32, 4 October 2007672×882 (316 KB)Devi bhakta ({{Information |Description=Sri Lalita Tripurasundari |Source=Religious art print |Date=Undated version of ancient, oft-rendered religious imagery |Author=Anonymous |Permission=Public domain |other_versions=similar religious art proliferates }} )
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