A previous post inspired me to use tineye.com to see if any of my photos uploaded to Wikipedia have been reused anywhere. It's interesting to see that some have!
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2007/09/25/rbs-group-bulks-up-abn-amro-shareholdi...
Yes, a Wall Street Journal blog used my (featured) image of Luna Park in Melbourne. Metaphorically...
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2008/06/gallery_roller_coa... Wired carefully credits 7 out of the 8 photos in its half-arsed "Collest roller coasters" collection. Guess which one misses out?
http://www.spoki.lv/foto-izlases/Pasi-briesmigakie-kalnini-pasaule/8989 Some latvian linkspam site probably earned a couple of cents from it...
http://peccataminuta.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/mont-saint-michele/ The second image from the top (yes, the terrible one with the white sky) is surprisingly popular...god knows why.
http://celticfestival.ie/programme_welsh.php The church illustrating "Dydd Iau Hydref 4" is from [[Image:Church_in_Kilkenny.jpg]] - I didn't even know which church it was when I uploaded it :) And now the locals are using the image for their own tourism site...cool!
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http:... Heh, they're using my photo of a truck crash near Melbourne University to illustrate a story about car accidents in Bratislava...
http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_995337_Real_Crashes_7.htm Oh and look, someone's made it the first image in a really crappy slideshow of vehicle accidents. How lovely.
But the most popular image of all? http://tineye.com/search/7b34c1bae7eba7ca3d2cf92816047c937add7399
I'm not quite sure what to make of all this. I do wish we were using a much better image repository than Commons.
Steve
Interesting. For the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake *Wired* credits the original photographer but not the restoration.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0418 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sfearthquake3b.jpg
A law firm's website doesn't credit the restoration on Louis Brandeis's portrait when they run it alongside a listing for one of their partner's "Champions of Justice" radio show.
http://www.jjllplaw.com/newsupdate.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brandeisl.jpg
*Time* uses the same restoration, also without credit.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895379_1895421_1...
And the government of Australia appears to be using the restoration of Douglas MacArthur uncredited. http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/waratsea/kamikaze.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Douglas_MacArthur_lands_Leyte1.jpg
Thoughts?
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
A previous post inspired me to use tineye.com to see if any of my photos uploaded to Wikipedia have been reused anywhere. It's interesting to see that some have!
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2007/09/25/rbs-group-bulks-up-abn-amro-shareholdi...
Yes, a Wall Street Journal blog used my (featured) image of Luna Park in Melbourne. Metaphorically...
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2008/06/gallery_roller_coa... Wired carefully credits 7 out of the 8 photos in its half-arsed "Collest roller coasters" collection. Guess which one misses out?
http://www.spoki.lv/foto-izlases/Pasi-briesmigakie-kalnini-pasaule/8989 Some latvian linkspam site probably earned a couple of cents from it...
http://peccataminuta.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/mont-saint-michele/ The second image from the top (yes, the terrible one with the white sky) is surprisingly popular...god knows why.
http://celticfestival.ie/programme_welsh.php The church illustrating "Dydd Iau Hydref 4" is from [[Image:Church_in_Kilkenny.jpg]] - I didn't even know which church it was when I uploaded it :) And now the locals are using the image for their own tourism site...cool!
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http:... Heh, they're using my photo of a truck crash near Melbourne University to illustrate a story about car accidents in Bratislava...
http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_995337_Real_Crashes_7.htm Oh and look, someone's made it the first image in a really crappy slideshow of vehicle accidents. How lovely.
But the most popular image of all? http://tineye.com/search/7b34c1bae7eba7ca3d2cf92816047c937add7399
I'm not quite sure what to make of all this. I do wish we were using a much better image repository than Commons.
Steve
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Durovanadezhda.durova@gmail.com wrote:
And the government of Australia appears to be using the restoration of Douglas MacArthur uncredited. http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/waratsea/kamikaze.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Douglas_MacArthur_lands_Leyte1.jpg
Yeah but now you're getting really subtle. Crediting a restoration is a less obvious thing to do, and probably less serious if they don't. Speaking for myself, I often disregard copyright notices when the source material is clearly very old - I assume the copyright notices have been plastered all over without thought. But maybe I'm missing transformation processes...
Btw, found an even better reuse of one of my images: http://article.wn.com/view/2007/11/30/A_man_says_he_was_robbed_of_700_during...
Kind of amusing. The text even refers to a "pickup" truck, not a cement mixer...
Steve
Well, I don't mind that these things run without financial compensation. But it would be nice to receive credit. The Brandeis restoration especially was a difficult job that took about three days.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Durovanadezhda.durova@gmail.com wrote:
And the government of Australia appears to be using the restoration of Douglas MacArthur uncredited. http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/waratsea/kamikaze.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Douglas_MacArthur_lands_Leyte1.jpg
Yeah but now you're getting really subtle. Crediting a restoration is a less obvious thing to do, and probably less serious if they don't. Speaking for myself, I often disregard copyright notices when the source material is clearly very old - I assume the copyright notices have been plastered all over without thought. But maybe I'm missing transformation processes...
Btw, found an even better reuse of one of my images:
http://article.wn.com/view/2007/11/30/A_man_says_he_was_robbed_of_700_during...
Kind of amusing. The text even refers to a "pickup" truck, not a cement mixer...
Steve
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Durovanadezhda.durova@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I don't mind that these things run without financial compensation. But it would be nice to receive credit. The Brandeis restoration especially was a difficult job that took about three days.
Ah - wow. Maybe in those cases, a clear message to that effect is worthwhile on the page?
Here's another one of my images I just found: http://www.french-riviera-mag.com/tourism/nice-information-13303.htm
Incredibly, I think they're actually complying with the GFDL. Link to GFDL licence, *and* link to Wikipedia authors list.
I think I'm starting to think that if Wikipedia credited photographers, then people who reuse Wikipedia material would be more likely to do so too.
Steve
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Steve Bennettstevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I think I'm starting to think that if Wikipedia credited photographers, then people who reuse Wikipedia material would be more likely to do so too.
We don't credit writers (and as of Monday reusers are being encouraged not to either).
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From: "Stephen Bain" stephen.bain@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, 18 June, 2009 08:25:35 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Image reuse
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Steve Bennettstevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I think I'm starting to think that if Wikipedia credited photographers, then people who reuse Wikipedia material would be more likely to do so too.
We don't credit writers (and as of Monday reusers are being encouraged not to either).
Wikinews interestingly does for images. I never quite understood why they do and we don't - maybe it'll catch on!
Andrew
2009/6/18 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
Wikinews interestingly does for images. I never quite understood why they do and we don't - >maybe it'll catch on!
Andrew
Basically because having "credit:wetriffs.com" in the article space would be inappropriate.