[WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

[Durova]

A more proactive approach would be very welcome where it comes to featured
pictures.  WMF photographers have occasionally discovered their work reused
without credit in commercial advertising.

-Durova

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> ---- "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > After my recent perusals of reuses of my images, here's my take:
> >
> > No one is ever going to pay attention to, let alone understand, let
> > alone respect, let alone follow the CC-BY or GFDL requirement for
> > credit. Soon, we will stop asking for it.
> >
> > In order for it to happen, we would have to:
> > a) Make the requirement really really prominent
> > b) Respect it ourselves
> > c) Vehemently complain in a very public manner when a few individuals
> > fail to do so.
> >
> > when d) we have far bigger fish to fry.
>
> Open question: do you think the Foundation and/or local chapters should
> complain more when their local media fail to respect Wikimedia copyrights?
>
> Andrew
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