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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