Hi,
I have a personal experience which is worth considering.
One of my picture uploaded on Commons under CC-BY-SA was used without
attribution by a political party on their website and 2 of their leaflets
(printed to more than 10,000 copies each).
I contacted them, and they immediately acknowledged that the license was
not respected. Their excuse was "We didn't know", which is quite difficult
to accept.
But then they stopped answering to my mails.
So I contacted a lawyer, who told me that I should ask "at least 5,000
euros".
Then the politician said to my lawyer than "I have agreed to a compensation
of a few euros", which is completely false.
Consequence: My lawyer could not negotiate more than a few hundreds euros.
Morality: It would have been much better for me to contact a lawyer
directly rather than trying to negotiate an amicable agreement. :(
Regards,
Yann
2017-03-05 15:30 GMT+01:00 James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>om>:
Am looking into options. Am going to be discussing
things with a lawyer.
Might be good to have a number of Wikipedians involved and will ask him.
James
On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonfors(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
James, that's very helpful and I see at least
one book on that list that
violates the licence, and hence breaches my copyright, in content that I
wrote. What's the best way forward? Should the WMF represent the
community by engaging directly with the company responsible? Or should
it
coordinate and advise individual contributors
making numerous individual
approaches? Or should it do nothing? What's best?
"Rogol"
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 2:39 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Rupert here is a list of 213,000 books that are
based on Wikipedia
without
> proper attribution.
>
>
https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22CTI+Reviews%22
>
> James
>
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 3:47 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > 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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