Commons talk:UAE in Lens Competition

What is the point

What is the point of this when any image of a monument or building is deleted from Commons because the UAE has no 'Freedom of Panorama'??? Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 14:54, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@Alexandermcnabb only public domain monuments (that is, the architects or sculptors are already dead for more than 70 years) of the country can be shared here under commercial CC licenses. Current UAE FoP rules only permit free uses in broadcasts, not photographs. But had this event been consulted at the likes of COM:VP in the first place, I may vote oppose holding this photography competition until UAE copyright law has been changed to allow free uses of copyrighted structures outside broadcasts. We do not expect uploaders to honor the copyright law of UAE and the copyrights of architects or sculptors, as seen in the numerous deletion requests involving images submitted through this event. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 08:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC)