---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] International Olympic Committee tells Flickr user to change license To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Fajro faigos@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/9 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com:
Interesting article about how the International Olympic Committee is cracking down even on CC-SA licenses:
The blog of the photographer:
http://richardgiles.com/2009/10/09/the-olympics-and-creative-commons-photogr...
That clears things up a lot, and brings up a lot of new questions. Wikipedia is actually at the center of this whole thing: Richard Giles changed the license on this photo of Usain Bolt (first to CC-BY-ND to CC-BY-SA) http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgiles/2767537621/
at the request of a Wikipedian so that it could be added to Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usain_Bolt_Olympics_Celebration.jpg
And Wikipedia is probably where the British merchant found the photo, which he used to promote a book. And that commercial use is what drew the attention of the International Olympics Committee. So now the IOC, it seems, wants Giles to put the CC-BY-SA genie back in the bottle.
What are the legal implications here? Does the contract (private use only for photos) implicitly agreed to by Giles when he bought a ticket to the Olympics invalidate the CC-BY-SA license, despite that downstream re-users (like us) weren't a party to the original contract?
-Sage