category thousand_yard_stare -> copyright

BUR #17318 has been rejected.

category thousand_yard_stare -> copyright

As with other famous paintings, this should be a copyright tag. See mona lisa, the scream, starry night.

Problem is this tag is being used for the expression in general, not parodies of the painting (which is called "two-thousand yard stare").

Most of the posts in that tag aren't references to the painting. I'd recommend gardening that first. Sniped by nnt

Why are famous paintings copyright tags, though? I would get it if they had related character tags, but Mona Lisa doesn't have her own tag, and Starry Night doesn't even feature people.

blindVigil said:

Why are famous paintings copyright tags, though? I would get it if they had related character tags, but Mona Lisa doesn't have her own tag, and Starry Night doesn't even feature people.

I have a related question. forum #242228:

Individual said:

Gustave_dore should be deleted, paradise_lost_(fine_art) or something like that, don_quixote_and_sancho_setting_out and the other artwork in post #1631484 - I think it's from Stories of Don Quixote: Written Anew for Children, illustrated by G.A. Harker - should be made into copytags and added to the posts, + fine art? Am I right?

blindVigil said:

Why are famous paintings copyright tags, though? I would get it if they had related character tags, but Mona Lisa doesn't have her own tag, and Starry Night doesn't even feature people.

Yeah, why are famous painting copyright tags? Sure, they're "copyrighted" works, but they're not really copyrights in the way the category is used here, are they? They're not an overarching property with associated characters. No one is going to look at a parody picture of mona lisa and think "I wonder what the copyright for this is. Oh, it's from Mona Lisa." Works containing or referencing an original painting aren't part of the painting's copyright any more than derivative works of a meme are part of the copyright of the original meme, and we certainly don't use copyright tags for those.

If anything, the existing paintings should be removed from the copyright category, and split into (for example) mona_lisa_(parody) for parody images, and mona_lisa_(painting) for appearances of the original work.

The bulk update request #17318 (forum #243504) has been rejected by @nonamethanks.