Hoi,
The operational word in your mail is "copyright holder". When the party or
parties who you INSIST have a copyright deny that they do like the Israeli
government does, your whole argument becomes a puddle.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 26 June 2014 07:21, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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