One case of course was the Claes Oldenburg takedown against Wikimedia Commons, in November 2012, for images of some of his large-scale public outdoor sculptures: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2012/11#DMCA...
However, the case is complicated because the take-down was under U.S. law, even though some of the sculptures were in the UK and other jurisdictions with more permissive rules.
Under the Berne Convention, freedom of panorama is a territorial copyright exception which applies to the territory where the *infringement* is alleged, not where the photograph was taken. So a photograph can be taken in the UK, and okay in the UK, but not okay in the United States (nor perhaps even France). Of course this directly runs against the freedom for the same document to be accessible right across the EU.
At the end of the day, it's not just about whether there have been legal cases or not. It's also about the chilling effect that there could be legal cases.
Wikimedia Commons takes the view that it's not good enough to sat "Okay, it's not legal, but we probably won't get sued" -- that is not a good approach to encourage, not for a highly visible organisation like WP, nor if people are to be encouraged to have a proper respect for copyright laws.
-- James.
On 28/01/2015 09:34, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote:
Hi everyone,
things are getting hot here in Brussels (saucy Monitoring Report and spicy blog post coming later this week) and we're working on full speed to convince decision-makers that FoP is an actual issue.
What would greatly help are any examples of infringement procedures, take down notices or someone getting sued because of lack of FoP in a jurisdiction. I've - thanks to WMFR - found a few timid examples from France, but in general it is still a slim file.
Thanks for thinking hard about this one.
Dimi
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