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

[SlimVirgin]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 20:24, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:05 AM, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?

I can't tell whether that's a serious answer. I hope we're not making
editors jump through all these hoops, and depriving readers of
important historical images, for the benefit of people who sell
T-shirts. :(