Wow, that's pretty blatant copyfraud. Anyone who owns those images should have a pretty good case to sue him.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Tuszynski, Jarek W. <JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI@leidos.com> wrote:

Paul Fearn seems to have a little business of selling images from WLM and claiming their authorship. In the past others complained at OTRS (https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom;TicketID=10017069# ). Did anybody tried contacting https://fineartamerica.com/contactus.html?tab=contactus to shut him down?

 

Jarekt

 

 

From: Commons-l [mailto:commons-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Samuel Klein
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2018 1:14 PM
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
Cc: Sarah Krichen
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Commons-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Copyfraud of WLM winners photo

 

Yuck.

 

That said, perhaps we should think about integrating a link to a CC-friendly printshop that can produce prints roughly at cost, perhaps with the WP URL and license on the back.  (prints are basically the only service 'fineartamerica' provides.)

 

In the US I use shortrunposters, ~$4 for a 2'x3' print (so, 5% the cost of fineartamerica); I bet there are others.

 

SJ

 

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

TLDR: someone is stealing WLM photo on https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/paul-fearn.html?tab=artwork&page=11 :/

Longer story: WMFR just received an OTRS message from a WLM competitor who discovered that someone is wrongly taking credits for its WLM photos (and other WLM files and other files from Commons apparently) on the fineartamerica website. This competitor send a mail to this website and asked if WMFR can help in any way.

So now, I'm sending you this mail to know whether you had to deal with things like this or if you have any ideas of what should be done.

Cdlt, ~nicolas

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