It looks to me like Harald Bischoff is making Money with this. If you google
his Name,
you find a lot of Blogposts related his Abmahnungen [1].
According to jurablogs he is also sending such Abmahnungen when a link to the
license text itself is missing [2].
Bischoff is sending the Abmahnungen
If Harald Bischoff has defrauded Commons reusers by requiring stricter
attribution than the community requires, does the Foundation have standing
in Germany to require him to return the money to his victims in proportion
to the extent that their attribution was improper?
Pine, why are you pinging WMF Legal on this? It is considerably premature
to expect them to do anything much more than read the relevant
discussions, maybe, if they have an intern to spare. What action do you
expect them to take, when the community has yet to determine whether or not
its own
Pinging WMF Legal to ask about what WMF can do about this entire situation.
Pine
On Jul 26, 2015 1:06 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
If Harald Bischoff has defrauded Commons reusers by requiring stricter
attribution than the community requires, does the Foundation have standing
As this may be a good opportunity to discuss the case as test of
Commons policies, this has been raised on the Wikimedia Commons
administrators noticeboard.[1] Please feel free to add evidence or
viewpoints there.
Link:
Risker,
James' question is about legal standing. There are also questions about
license compliance. I believe that those are both within the scope of WMF
Legal to analyze, and are sepatate from questions about compliance with
community policy. The community and WMF can look into this situation in
