[Foundation-l] CC by-sa upheld in Germany, over a Commons photo

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:31 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 September 2011 23:22, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The judgement is a preliminary injunction prior to a hearing. Presumably the
>> respondents will present a case at the hearing - do we know if they will
>> present arguments that the CC-By-SA license is somehow unenforceable?
>> However, the description of the injunction does suggest that the court would
>> take some persuading that the plaintiff's rights have not been infringed....
>
>
> Note that Germany was the first country where the GPL was upheld in
> court against an infringer. That combined with this suggests the court
> system there is friendly to licenses meaning what they say.
>

Too bad Wikimedia TOS still labors under the misapprehension that the
licence doesn't mean what it says.


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