# Wikimedian achieves first legal enforcement of CC license in Germany: The regional court
of Berlin (Landgericht Berlin) has ruled in favor of a German Wikipedian against the reuse
of a photo from Commons which violated the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. As reported (in German)
last month by ifrOSS, the preliminary injunction was already granted in October; it does
not appear to have been contested. ifrOSS called it "as far as known the first
successful enforcement of a Creative Commons license in
Germany". The photo in question depicts Thilo Sarrazin, a politician whose statements
on immigration policy and criticism of multiculturalism had started a huge controversy
last year, during which the photo was used on the blog of a right wing party, without
naming the photographer and without linking (or reproducing) the license text. User:Nina
was represented by JBB, a law firm which has also represented the German Wikimedia chapter
in various cases.
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