On 24 June 2014 15:24, Neel Gupta <freedom.ne0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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because US laws prohibit it. This problem is enlarged
because every
Wikipedia regional site uses commons as a digital media library, and moves
all the PD works to commons, which then deletes half of them due to
copyright incompatibility.
Citation needed for "half of them".
As a case study example of how conscientious volunteers are on
Commons, please take a look at the deletion request below. This
involved a large number of US public domain posters from the Library
of Congress, some of which were assessed as having potential copyright
claims in Germany, despite being 100 years old. These were carefully
reviewed, death dates of artists checked where possible, and the files
to be deleted moved (by a bot) to the English Wikipedia where the U.S.
public domain status is sufficient for them stay available for use on
Wikipedia. Note that some of these will be undeleted on Commons in a
few years, once the 70 years after the artists death date is due.
* DR:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_on_User:M…
* Files moved to Wikipedia and so still available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_I_posters_in_the_Library_of…
This case study example was not a result of lobbying off-wiki, this
was Commons contributors doing their best to keep images available for
reuse. Moving files off Commons to a project where they can stay
available under weaker copyright policies is one of our best
practices.
Fae
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