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Snæfellsjökull by Guðmundur Thorsteinsson ("Muggur") (1891-1924). Made in 1922.

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Obtained from umm.is, an information portal about Icelandic artists. They don't specify where they obtained the image. Specific link: http://english.umm.is/UMMenglish/Artists/ArtWork/2081

Published (in colour) in Björn Th. Björnsson (1960). Guðmundur Thorsteinsson : Muggur : Ævi hans og list. Reykjavík, Helgafell." page 155. This may or may not have been the first publication.

Note that even photographs which are not artworks have a copyright protection of 50 years from creation in Iceland. Thus it is not clear that this image is in the public domain in Iceland. Even a scan from that 1960 book could not be safely uploaded to Commons until January 1, 2011, under current law.

The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with copyright terms of life of the author plus 70 years or less. Under American copyright law, originality of expression is necessary for copyright protection, and a mere photograph of an out-of-copyright work may not be protected under American copyright law.

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current	22:48, 13 August 2007	3,099×2,527 (764 KB)	Haukurth (Talk \| contribs)	('''''Snæfellsjökull''''' by Guðmundur Thorsteinsson ("Muggur") (1891-1924). Made in 1922. ==Source and copyright== Obtained from umm.is, an information portal about Icelandic artists. They don't specify where they obtained the image. Specific)