[Commons-l] Beer and copyright

[Joe Szilagyi]

Some of you may recall that about 5-6 (?) weeks ago we had a slew of
deletion requests of beer bottles and cans. If my memory is correct,
virtually all of them were "keep" under the rationale that the images didn't
fall under fair use or copyright violations for our purposes. There is a
fresh DR on this today:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Pacifico_lata.jpg

And another just closed as delete the other day. We have numerous images
that are ostensibly just, well, images of products:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Marmite-Guinness_edition.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:A_bottle_of_Budweiser.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stolichnaya.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stoli.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ursuswodka.JPG

This isn't specific to alcohol products, of course--just went for those as
they seem to be the topic of discussion. Should we be hosting such images?

- Joe
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