[Foundation-l] Is there a good reason to delete the Burj Al Arab?

[Marcus Buck]

Am 13.03.2011 13:01, schrieb Peter Carney:
> Validly licenced images of this building and thousands of others are
> routinely deleted due to Wikimedia Commons' 'FoP' policy. Clearly this
> damages our educational mission and impacts many projects. One
> proposed remedy is a tweak to the policy on the lines of that arising
> from the National Portrait Gallery dispute. Opponents of change say
> things like "Commons only accepts free content" which was never
> strictly true even before the NPG/PD-art policy change.
>
> The question which I'd like to hear your views on is: Can you think of
> any valid arguments to the effect that deleting these images has an
> upside - a benefit to our mission?
>
> P Carney

The upside is, that we won't get sued by copyright holders, I guess.

Marcus Buck
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