On 26 June 2014 05:31, Neel Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
There is no reluctance, all that is needed is a credible release statement from the copyright holder. If no human creativity was involved, then there can be no copyright on the works, however one rarely sees publishers who actually do claim to be publishing the 'word of God', or similar, in a rush to legally waive all copyright for their publications. One can starkly see this apparent double standard when it comes to the writings (or "teachings") of spiritualists who claim that their words (or recorded performances) are directly controlled by entities such as the long dead, or extra-terrestrial "masters", for which there can be no legal copyright, were they to instruct their lawyers to take the same claims as literally true; it seems odd that their publishers still claim copyright and are keen to take money on behalf of named copyright holders that claim to not own the very same works. In these situations it would be unfair to expect Commons administrators to ignore copyright claims of publishers, when the courts do not. Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
