Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
But in terms of pictures, photographs is a very very minor segment indeed. Discussing the matter solely in terms of photographs is very diversionary.
I certainly didn't intend to be diversionary; rather, I'm a bit confused as to what the vast majority of non-photograph pictures I've mised are. Aren't the vast majority of the pictures on Wikimedia commons photographs? How is that a "very very minor segment"? We're discussing licensing for media files that are part of the Wikimedia project, after all.
What pictures *do* you mean? Heck, our diagrams almost always have a single author too, from some spot-checking I've done, as do our maps. I can't think of a single category of works that make up a significant proportion of Wikimedia-distributed media files that usually have multiple authors.
-Mark