I'm sorry, what?
You want me to tell the person who has shitty regard for people's privacy and thinks its funny to engage in libellous outing of others, and does nothing but troll our projects, and makes comments in public forums like "Young Ms. Stierch just isn't very clever, is she? She's the best friend the status quo could ever have and doesn't realize it.", what they can do to make sure their own house is in order?
Perhaps he can ask his lawyers; the same ones who stated, according to him, "commons has such a bad reputation for accurate licensing that a downstream user such as ourselves could ultimately be considered culpable if anyone chose to go that route."
I will, however, do what I normally do when I come across such violations -- that is inform the photographer, and provide some link which lays out their rights as a photographer and copyright holder, with additional links on how to formulate a letter to have compensation paid. I have done this with some of my aviation photographer buddies in Russia, and they been successful in obtaining compensation of $500 for use of their photos on several occasions.
Again, have a nice day :)
Cheers,
Russavia
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
I'll gladly pass your comment on, Russavia. How should the attribution read? At present it reads,
Which way?
Bernard Gagnon/Wikimedia Commons GNU Free Documentation License
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/1106/From-a-distance-Syria-...
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Andreas
Please inform your "kind" colleague, that if they intend to bag Commons in future, they should ensure that their own house is in order first; for I now have the sad duty to inform you that they have used images from Commons with scant regard for licencing, and I have made a note of this on the image concerned.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Road_sign_Homs-Palmyra-Baghdad.j...
The lesson? Before accusing others of violating copyright (i.e. Commons) one should stop and think twice before they open mouth and insert foot.
Regards,
Russavia
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