Everyone, Actually there is a Case in Austria I didn't pursue so far (mainly because it's not my CC-By-SA content).
I recently bought a Hiking Guide (released with traditional Copyright) It contains a series of images (actually most) from WikiPedia CC-By-SA. By consequence the Book must be an open license - it isn't. I have yet to dig out the images affected and contact the license owners about this. Anyone want to join in? Michael On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:16:16PM +0000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Miller, Andrew (ELS-OXF) < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > How would a private individual, perhaps without much money, realistically > > ‘go after’ such transgressors? > > > > > > > Exactly this happened to me earlier this year. Springer-Verlag who are an > STM publisher like Elsevier took images I had published as CC-BY, stamped > "Copyright Springer" on them and offered them for sale at 60 USD per image. > > I went straight to the web and blogged this daily - exposing the scope of > Springer's claim to material that they did not own. This included CC-BY > images in Wikipedia. See > http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/06/07/springergate-i-try-to-explain-springerimages-and-my-continuing-concern/and > several blog posts previous. Springer retracted over a period of weeks > and got a significant amount of publicity, including in Wikip(m)edia > outlets. > > I do not know how seriously Elsevier regard other people's copyright. I > have been to Elsevier presentations where apparently third party copyright > material has been shown, asked whether Elsevier had obtained permission and > am yet to get a reply. If it happens to me I shall make it seriously > public. I shall not divulge my subsequent strategy but I do not believe I > will be powerless. > > > > ** > > > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss -- Data Wrangler with the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN.org) GPG/PGP key: http://tentacleriot.eu/mihi.asc Twitter: @mihi_tr Skype: mihi_tr _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
