On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:05 AM, SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 18:28, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The problem for Commons is also reusability - Wikimedia could get away with just about anything, but reusers may not.
What kind of reusers do we have in mind? The reason I ask is that the image policies are crippling, or the way they're being applied is. I've lost count of the number of times Holocaust images are proposed for deletion because, we're told, there's a free equivalent somewhere. Prisoners risked their lives in concentration camps to smuggle out images to prove to the world what was happening, images that are PD in their country of origin, yet we're not supposed to use them (in the opinion of some Wikipedians) because they're not PD in the U.S. and there might be a free equivalent somewhere. If this is happening to make things easier for reusers, it would be good to know who they are and what this kind of policy application protects them from, because all it does is cause problems for us.
Possibly the reusers who stick images on T-shirts and mugs and sell them?
Carcharoth