Jastrow schrieb:
Why would you fear about your uploads?
I did a few reproductions myself. They are not anonymous - I have the name of all authors. They are all within 100 and 150 years old. If we extend the limit for {{PD-old}} to 150 years you will delete them and every old work that is a) anonym or b) the year of death of the author is not known. Otherwise there is no so called safety. You would force me to move my work back to German Wikipedia...
To find out the year of death of a person who published an image 150 years ago this might take several working days sitting in an archive somewhere around the globe. This is a de facto no-go for PD-old images.
The earliest photograph dates from 1826. The new 150 year rule means that works are protected back to 1858. This means you'd only keep this couple of photographs from 1826-1858 for anonymous works.
Commons would be much more popular if the policy was more lax. No doubt
True. That's why we are unpopular despite the good quality of the works. To me there is no compulsive reason why we should be stricter than the big commercial publishers. Take the 228 years old newspaper NZZ in Switzerland. They publish your examples mentioned above (Pokemon t-shirt simple photographs etc.) as Public Domain. No press license! They redistribute it in their archive. No one ever sued them or would do this currently. You could get much more money from the commercial NZZ then from nonprofit Wikimedia. Let's find the good examples for our young database. And let's not be paranoid.
Regards
Robin