We have to remember that US copyright laws always apply because of the physical location of the servers and Wikimedia.
Adam
On 7/18/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
It's recommended but not required. There aren't many reasons left to upload free images to en:, but there's some inertia resisting the change. Plus, in the absence of single signon, it would result in many more redundant logins to merge later, so my personal inclination is not to press the issue until after single signon is up and running.
There's so much benefit to uploading them to Commons (improving the status of Commons as a free repository, getting images used across all of the Wikipedias, etc.), it seems almost criminal to not upload them there.
There have been some criticism of commons policy, but I attribute that to commons being genuinely multinational. For instance, en: and de: WP editors are mostly happily unaware of their differing practices, but on commons they can end up butting heads over how to handle a shared image.
That's my take on it too. Something which seems quite natural to a bunch of US editors, steeped in US copyright notions and law, can often be quite complicated when introduced into a more international forum, without even taking into account language differences. But it generally works out, eventually.
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