I don't think that any of the messages posted to this forum have really
addressed the reason behind the deletion request.
The Wikimedia Foundation has stated in
Foundation:Resolution:Licensing_policy that "All projects are expected to
host only content which is under a Free Content License". This is why, for
example, we are not allowed to display the Firefox logo in the user space
(because it is not free enough for Wikimedia).
Furthermore, in the Foundation-endorsed freedomdefined:Definition, it states
"In most countries however, these freedoms are not enforced but suppressed
by the laws commonly named *copyright laws*. They consider authors as
god-like creators and give them an exclusive monopoly as to how "their
content" can be re-used. This monopoly impedes the flourishing of culture,
and it does not even help the economic situation of authors so much as it
protects the business model of the most powerful publishing companies."
Now, why should copyright held by Wikimedia be any less evil than copyright
held by others? Given this anti-copyright stance of the foundation, it is
only fair that all non-free content be removed from the Commons, no matter
who owns the copyright.