I gotta be seeing things on Commons.

Here is the EDGE magazine logo. It was uploaded and deemed as PD-textlogo on Commons long ago.

Now a court decision has been handed down clarifying that this logo is copyrighted and is therefore not PD. 1 2

And guess what? The deletion review was closed as "Kept per PD-textlogo" by sysop Yann. That very administrator who deemed full-sized photos of architecture to be de minimis

Yeah, ridiculous. "All hail the copyfraud!"

So what? There are thousands of corporate logos on Commons.

Do you see any attorneys lining up to sue the WMF? I don't. Usually in cases like this, the law firm
is more interested in publicity than in the actual case, so you'd be seeing media reports about it.

Jurisdiction is different. If there are more such UK corporate logos on Commons they are all copyvios then though.

It reminds me of a deletion discussion that I was involved with:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:...e:Kogaru1.jpg_2

The closing sysop basically said, "Fuck what nearly every user on the page thinks; this image is staying, and that's final." On Commons, "consensus" lies with the closing sysop, not the community. Commons' closing sysops are basically "activist judges".

An near-absolute requirement to be a Commons sysop is having a strong commitment to the Creative Commons' notion of "Free Culture" and its related deep disrespect for the entire modern notion of copyright law.

A/K/A the Frei Kultur Kinder, who insist that fair use media is evil and that anyone who says otherwise is a heretic to be put to the question.

That user's handling of deletion discussion closures is largely responsible for his later removal as a sysop.