On 24 June 2014 15:24, Neel Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: ... > because US laws prohibit it. This problem is enlarged because every > Wikipedia regional site uses commons as a digital media library, and moves > all the PD works to commons, which then deletes half of them due to > copyright incompatibility.
Citation needed for "half of them". As a case study example of how conscientious volunteers are on Commons, please take a look at the deletion request below. This involved a large number of US public domain posters from the Library of Congress, some of which were assessed as having potential copyright claims in Germany, despite being 100 years old. These were carefully reviewed, death dates of artists checked where possible, and the files to be deleted moved (by a bot) to the English Wikipedia where the U.S. public domain status is sufficient for them stay available for use on Wikipedia. Note that some of these will be undeleted on Commons in a few years, once the 70 years after the artists death date is due. * DR: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_on_User:Martin_H./World_War_I_posters_in_the_Library_of_Congress_for_jpg_file_matches_to_%22Rehse-Archiv%22 * Files moved to Wikipedia and so still available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_I_posters_in_the_Library_of_Congress This case study example was not a result of lobbying off-wiki, this was Commons contributors doing their best to keep images available for reuse. Moving files off Commons to a project where they can stay available under weaker copyright policies is one of our best practices. Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
