You need to precise that you created a whole farm of sockpuppets,
which are all blocked on the English Wikipedia and Commons.
For what I know, these socks mostly are pursuing a political agenda
about a power game.
Yann
2014-12-14 6:49 GMT+01:00 Bruentrup <claus.bruentrup(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi
One of those 6 successful DMCA's of 2014 was filed by us.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/DMCA_India_Against_Corruption_logo
Yet recently when my client, in good faith, reports further
infringement of their same logo at Commons village pump, we have a
Commons administrator agitating the community against my client. This
administrator is self declared on-wiki, on his user page, as an
employee of an NGO whose CEO is an infringer of my client's works and
has regularly impersonated my client. This administrator is also the
Commons OTRS administrator.
Not surprisingly my client's OTRS emails have gone unacknowledged with
no action taken, and my client's spokesperson was repeatedly insulted
and abused on-line at the highly toxic Commons which has become a
haven for pirates and infringers.
The WMF must urgently install a professional take down system at
Commons which is autonomous, ticketed, and with DMCAs as an appellate
mechanism. Till then the WMF must also immediately cease advising
affected non-users to resolve their infringements with their
"communities".
BRUENTRUP
On 12/14/14, pajz <pajzmail(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 13 December 2014 at 19:46, Bruentrup <claus.bruentrup(a)gmail.com> wrote:
WMF must implement a professional ticketed system
for media takedowns,
and DMCAs must be the exception rather than the norm.
hmm, do you have evidence of this? There are often delays when it comes to
acknowledging the receipt of permission statements (due to the high amount
of such emails), but frankly I have never heard of copyright infringement
notices not being processed. From my impression this is one area where we
are particularly swift to react, and respecting third-party copyrights is
one of the cornerstones of the project (incidentally, the original thread
here was started precisely because, supposedly, Commons users take
copyright law too seriously). That doesn't mean there might not be an
outlier occasionally, but almost all of these copyright-related complaints
that I see are dealt with within a few days at the most. (That doesn't, and
shouldn't, mean that everything is acted on just because someone claims
their rights were violated without providing any proof of that claim. In
this case it might be necessary to resort to the DMCA's notice process
since it's the only way to at least expose the claimant to some danger
should his assertion prove untrue.)
Also, the extremely low number of DMCA take-down requests (see <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Transparency_Report/DM…)
seems to contradict your claim that they are the "norm." It would be highly
implausible that you can run a platform like the Wikimedia projects at 58
DMCA requests in two years (apparently less than 10/year related to
Commons) unless you have a pretty efficient mechanism apart from that in
place to address such issues.
Patrik
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