Hi,
Last week a small case of copyright violation come to a positive conclusion.
Niccolò Caranti [[User:Jaqen]] is a Wikipedian and as a professional photographer also a very prolific Commons contributor to the point that he is a sysop both on itwiki and Commons.
He recently discovered that one of his photos was used for an event without respecting the terms of the CC-BY-SA license, i.e. without proper attribution to him and reference to the license.
Supported by Simone Aliprandi - a lawyer specializing in intellectual property and author of a number of (free/libre) books on the topic of licenses and Creative Commons in particular - they sent a formal request to the organizers of the event.
The issue has been resolved amicably with all legal costs paid by the agency that was working for the organizers of the event (who admitted their mistake) and a compensation for the author.
You can read more about this case here: https://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2016/06/photo-from-wikipedia-violation-license...
Cristian
Thank you for the information about this case. It is good to see it worked out to all satisfaction.
Sydney On Jun 28, 2016 10:52 AM, "Cristian Consonni" kikkocristian@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Last week a small case of copyright violation come to a positive conclusion.
Niccolò Caranti [[User:Jaqen]] is a Wikipedian and as a professional photographer also a very prolific Commons contributor to the point that he is a sysop both on itwiki and Commons.
He recently discovered that one of his photos was used for an event without respecting the terms of the CC-BY-SA license, i.e. without proper attribution to him and reference to the license.
Supported by Simone Aliprandi - a lawyer specializing in intellectual property and author of a number of (free/libre) books on the topic of licenses and Creative Commons in particular - they sent a formal request to the organizers of the event.
The issue has been resolved amicably with all legal costs paid by the agency that was working for the organizers of the event (who admitted their mistake) and a compensation for the author.
You can read more about this case here:
https://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2016/06/photo-from-wikipedia-violation-license...
Cristian
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Interesting. I have personally experienced the same kind of violtion of rights many times from media and other professional authors, and I have several times asked for compensation which they have always granted. This includes large national media and the state broadcaster. I have usually claimed 500-1,000 USD, and always received the claimed amouny without the use of lawyers.
Erlend
Den tirsdag 28. juni 2016 skrev Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com følgende:
Hi,
Last week a small case of copyright violation come to a positive conclusion.
Niccolò Caranti [[User:Jaqen]] is a Wikipedian and as a professional photographer also a very prolific Commons contributor to the point that he is a sysop both on itwiki and Commons.
He recently discovered that one of his photos was used for an event without respecting the terms of the CC-BY-SA license, i.e. without proper attribution to him and reference to the license.
Supported by Simone Aliprandi - a lawyer specializing in intellectual property and author of a number of (free/libre) books on the topic of licenses and Creative Commons in particular - they sent a formal request to the organizers of the event.
The issue has been resolved amicably with all legal costs paid by the agency that was working for the organizers of the event (who admitted their mistake) and a compensation for the author.
You can read more about this case here:
https://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2016/06/photo-from-wikipedia-violation-license...
Cristian
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lol, I thought you were talking about another 'event' until I saw the link... (A)
Lodewijk
2016-06-28 16:51 GMT+02:00 Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com:
Hi,
Last week a small case of copyright violation come to a positive conclusion.
Niccolò Caranti [[User:Jaqen]] is a Wikipedian and as a professional photographer also a very prolific Commons contributor to the point that he is a sysop both on itwiki and Commons.
He recently discovered that one of his photos was used for an event without respecting the terms of the CC-BY-SA license, i.e. without proper attribution to him and reference to the license.
Supported by Simone Aliprandi - a lawyer specializing in intellectual property and author of a number of (free/libre) books on the topic of licenses and Creative Commons in particular - they sent a formal request to the organizers of the event.
The issue has been resolved amicably with all legal costs paid by the agency that was working for the organizers of the event (who admitted their mistake) and a compensation for the author.
You can read more about this case here:
https://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2016/06/photo-from-wikipedia-violation-license...
Cristian
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