On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:05 AM, SlimVirgin <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 18:28, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The problem for Commons is also reusability - Wikimedia could get away >> with just about anything, but reusers may not. >> > 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? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
