This has been discussed multiple times on Wikimedia Commons and dewp, thus i see no need to discuss it here again.
The RFC on dewp [1] to ban such photos from being used failed, which speaks for itself.
--Steinsplitter
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/keine_Bilder_in_Artik...
________________________________ Von: Wikimedia-l wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org im Auftrag von rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com Gesendet: Sonntag, 5. März 2017 10:22 An: Wikimedia Mailing List Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business
case 1: <removed> to name a couple of other persons if you want to google for "abmahnfalle wikipedia" (cease and desist trap wikipedia): <removed>
personally i favor a technical solution, as i find it pointless to put people on some pillory for doing what the law allows them to do. like separating into two commons - one save for reuse, one to be used if you know a lawyer. or to built into wikipedias infrastructure to include the license and author within the picture, fix wordpress, etcetc. besides of course fixing the CC license in case it still is not ready for proper online usage.
rupert
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
I've run into one or two people on OTRS that were reusing the materials in good faith, but that got a letter from such a photographer that wanted to see money (and that is just spillover from Germany to the Netherlands). Examples linked in the discussion include this warning and bill http://www.gulli.com/news/19712-abmahnung-wegen-bild-aus-der-wikipedia-2013-01-12 of hundreds of euros for a foundation that did not specify the author name or this website that was asked https://historischdenken.hypotheses.org/3677 to pay over a thousand euro. The discussion on the German WIkipedia may contain more links, and the linked blogs are insightful on how this behaviour is being perceived. Just google for "abmahnung bild wikipedia" to find more examples and stories.
Hope that clarifies. German Wikipedians may have better examples.
Lodewijk
2017-03-04 12:47 GMT+01:00 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
This thread is notably long on hypothetical and meta-level discussions and very short on concrete examples of the supposedly problematic uploads under discussion. What are the generally accepted examples of what we're actually talking about here?
- d.
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