[WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:05 AM, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 18:28, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problem for Commons is also reusability - Wikimedia could get away
>> with just about anything, but reusers may not.
>>
> What kind of reusers do we have in mind? The reason I ask is that the
> image policies are crippling, or the way they're being applied is.
> I've lost count of the number of times Holocaust images are proposed
> for deletion because, we're told, there's a free equivalent somewhere.
> Prisoners risked their lives in concentration camps to smuggle out
> images to prove to the world what was happening, images that are PD in
> their country of origin, yet we're not supposed to use them (in the
> opinion of some Wikipedians) because they're not PD in the U.S. and
> there might be a free equivalent somewhere. If this is happening to
> make things easier for reusers, it would be good to know who they are
> and what this kind of policy application protects them from, because
> all it does is cause problems for us.

Possibly the reusers who stick images on T-shirts and mugs and sell them?

Carcharoth