Also, there is the reluctance of commons administrators to host media attributed to other entities like, God, Earth, Spirit, Church, Temple, etc. see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright/Archive/2013/04#God.27s_Work
This issue keeps comming up because Commons is seen and prides itself in hosting media files for all other Wikimedia projects. There wouldn't be any issue if every Wikimedia project hosted it's own media files, rather than moving them to commons. On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Rama Neko <[email protected]> wrote: > There could be other similar questions, for instance the issue of what > "anonymous work" means (a naive understanding will equate that to not > knowing who the author is, which is wrong, there have been lawsuits brought > by right holders on such matters). In general, copyright law is > complicated, and international copyright law is very complicated. In some > cases there will be material deleted, and it will be frustrating, and I > sympathise, but that's life for you. > > The issue keeps coming up because of a culture of seeing Commons as a > second-rate project subordinated to the interests of other projects, and > culture of forum shopping when not satisfied with the answers received in > the usual fora on Commons. It will stop occurring when everybody will have > accepted that it is not Commons that causes these questions, and that a > certain amount of frustration is unavoidable given the context. > -- Rama > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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