MusicBrainz (CC0 licensed music metadata project, think Wikidata for music) announced today that they prevailed against Philpot https://blog.metabrainz.org/2019/06/25/we-were-sued-by-a-copyright-troll-and-we-prevailed/ and had a court dismiss the suit with prejudice.
Some discussion (including Nemo mentioning this thread, thanks!) is happening on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1143548566775853056.
Myself and other Wikimedians are also MusicBrainz contributors, and I'm pretty sure even more of us are consumers through Amazon/last.fm/Spotify/etc. so it would be nice if we could figure out their remaining concerns with using images from Commons, and a way forward.
-- Legoktm
On 4/24/19 3:58 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) via Commons-l wrote:
This was briefly discussed also at https://2019.copyleftconf.org/schedule/presentation/11/
I tried to make a list of some of Philpot cases (attached).
Federico
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