Hi Gnagarra,
(in case others try to open the same link unsuccessfully as well: this one
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/AppropriatelyLicensed>should
work)
The discussion is from 2013, and good to look back at indeed.
I don't disagree that there may be occasions where legal action is the most
reasonable approach. Maybe it would be better to define a 'best practice'
in that field as a community, a path that we consider commonly accepted? It
is really the (perceived?) excesses that triggered this discussion, I
think, not the typical wikimedian that tries to get credit where credit is
due.
Respect may indeed be the term that should take center stage. It is fine
that people expect reusers to respect the terms - but I guess some may have
a disagreement what 'respect' really means, and whether or not it can be
accomplished by hefty 'penalties' and fearmongering.
Lodewijk
2017-03-06 2:01 GMT+01:00 Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com>om>:
Lodewijk, I posted on the 4th,
Licensing and the choices have been discussed on
Commons
https://commons .
is
well worth a read to understand the issue
the problem of no attribution is a real issue sometimes I just ask for the
company to fix that and other times I just ignore. On one occasion I went
to a lawyer because the company had put their copyright mark on my photo
and was offering it for sale. The cases highlighted are trivial and should
normally be dismissed by courts but using predatory behavior of lawyers
does get rewards.
I agree that the predatory behavior needs to be addressed but in doing so
we shouldnt be excluding the opportunity for recourse when malicious
behaviors of the end user occur. A part of the free sharing of knowledge
is ensuring the under lying laws and conditions that enable it are also
respected by all parties.
On 6 March 2017 at 08:03, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote:
Hi Steinsplitter. Thanks for mentioning this was
discussed multiple times
on Wikimedia Commons. The discussion on the German Wikipedia was actually
the trigger of this discussion, so we were aware of that existing. I
didn't
see a reference to the discussions on Commons
yet. Do you have links by
any
chance?
Thanks,
Lodewijk
2017-03-05 13:33 GMT+01:00 Steinsplitter Wiki <
steinsplitter-wiki(a)live.com
:
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_Artikelnamensraum_von_direkt_abmahnenden_Fotografen
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von
> rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)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(a)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(a)gmail.com>om>:
> >
> >> 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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