[WikiEN-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

[Durova]

The vendor violates moral rights on all the items it offers for sale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%29

In particular, though, it happens to be useful that along the line they're
selling Walt Disney's portrait with Mickey Mouse.

Cheers,
Durova

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:

>
> On 15 Sep 2009, at 23:05, Durova wrote:
>
> > An eBay vendor is exploiting a volunteer restoration of the Holocaust.
>
> They are profiteering off public domain material (at least in the
> case of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). As it's public domain, there's no
> actual legal requirement to provide attribution...
>
> Although it's certainly not nice, is it actually breaking copyright/
> the law in this case?
>
> For copyrighted / Creative Commons images, it's obviously a very
> different matter...
>
> Mike
>
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