Codeispoetry wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 11:10 am, Jastrow wrote:
The German Wikipedia has a {{Bild-PD-alt-100}} template which states something like "the period of protection for this work has likely expired according to the provisions of German law and therefore is considered as PD". See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Bild-PD-alt-100
This template is quite a nice and useful tool for the german wikipedia, since they are creating an encyclopaedia. However, the project goal of commons is to become a repository of free media, so we should be really concerned about the actual copyright status of files and not only about the probability of legal steps against the uploader or the foundation.
While talking about this deletion request, I just want to add that Yann, Checkuser and Admin, behaved in a most flagrant way and misused is sysop rights not only against consensus but also in his own interest. Sad.
I think you got it all wrong. I have no personal interest here. My only interest is to create and publish free content. I think that your interpretation of what is free and what is not free goes against our mission: that this content should be available to everybody.
Beside that, I don't understand how you can advocate different copyright rules for Wikipedia and for Commons. This is beyond any legal and objective argument: this content is hosted on the same computers, managed by the same organisation. What this content is used for does not change in anyway its copyright status. Therefore if this content is allowed on the German Wikipedia, there is no reason it should not be allowed on Commons.
I also think that your attitude of excessive copyright interpretation is the main reason why Commons is not more widely used by the different projects: they have no garantee that the content they allow and they need will be kept on Commons.
regards, Codeispoetry
Regards,
Yann