Quoting Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
However, this does not appear to be the case on itwiki: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:PuntanoQui/Template:Copyrighted
Where very many of these images could have be recreated as free works by anyone.. many of them are even the works of wikipedians but they are not released as free content.
That's disappointing to read. I imagine, however, that this also happens on projects disallowing "permission only for Wikipedia" but allowing fair use.
Jkelly