[Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: [PRESS] Wikimedia Israel spokesperson against the Likud

[Mathias Schindler]

2013/1/30 ENWP Pine <deyntestiss at hotmail.com>:
> I believe I heard of a case in Germany where someone sold a bunch
> of CC photos from Wikimedia Commons with the claim that the photos were a
> "private collection", although I can't seem to find a news link for that so
> I could be mistaken.

This was mentioned by the head of the Bundesarchiv image department
who saw printouts of cc licensed Bundesarchiv images on ebay - without
attribution. I have no information about the current state of
enforcement.

Unrelated to that, my wife successfully enforced the CC license terms
three times (out of three). A French TV station settled out of court,
a far right wing party and an islamist group had to be sued, one case
is mentioned at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Gerlach_vs._DVU /
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28644

Mathias

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