Also, there is the reluctance of commons administrators to host media
attributed to other entities like, God, Earth, Spirit, Church, Temple, etc.
see
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright/Archive/20…
This issue keeps comming up because Commons is seen and prides itself in
hosting media files for all other Wikimedia projects. There wouldn't be any
issue if every Wikimedia project hosted it's own media files, rather than
moving them to commons.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Rama Neko <ramaneko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There could be other similar questions, for instance
the issue of what
"anonymous work" means (a naive understanding will equate that to not
knowing who the author is, which is wrong, there have been lawsuits brought
by right holders on such matters). In general, copyright law is
complicated, and international copyright law is very complicated. In some
cases there will be material deleted, and it will be frustrating, and I
sympathise, but that's life for you.
The issue keeps coming up because of a culture of seeing Commons as a
second-rate project subordinated to the interests of other projects, and
culture of forum shopping when not satisfied with the answers received in
the usual fora on Commons. It will stop occurring when everybody will have
accepted that it is not Commons that causes these questions, and that a
certain amount of frustration is unavoidable given the context.
-- Rama
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