You still haven't got it right. What you can't do is publish a database
of images for commercial use.
If I were to go to Sweden take photos of every publicly placed work of
art and put them on a website
there wouldn't be an issue. If I were to put them on a website and
announce that they could be used
by commercial enterprises for any purpose then I would have a problem.
Its the creation of a database of images for commercial reuse that is
the problem.
On 05/04/2016 20:40, Samantha Lien wrote:
Hi Andreas,
This blog post was corrected earlier this morning PST:
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/04/strike-against-freedom-panorama/>https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/04/strike-against-freedom-panorama/
The sentence you mentioned now reads:
The Court decided that Swedish copyright law does not allow Wikimedia
Sverige to post images in its online database offentligkonst.se
<http://offentligkonst.se> (a website / database covering publicly
placed art) without permission from the artist.
There are also correction notes at the top and end of the post, and
we’ve updated our social media posts from the @Wikipedia Facebook and
Twitter accounts to acknowledge and reflect this correction.
Thank you,
Sam
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Lilburne
<lilbu...@tygers-of-wrath.net <mailto:lilbu...@tygers-of-wrath.net>>
wrote:
Its not "a large-scale online database" per se. Its the commercial
aspect of it that is at issue.
On 05/04/2016 19:06, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
Report in The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/wikimedias-free-photo-database-of-artworks-violates-copyright-court-rules
Wikimedia Sweden press release:
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/hoegsta-domstolen-vaeljer-att-krympa-det-offentliga-rummet-istaellet-foer-att-gaa-paa-wikimedia-sveriges-linje-1360834
WMF blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/04/strike-against-freedom-panorama/
I would note here that in my opinion, the WMF blog post and some
journalists who seem to have read it materially misrepresent
the decision
made, when they say or imply that
<quote>
The Court decided that Swedish copyright law does not allow
individuals or
organizations to post images online of publicly-placed artwork
without
permission from the artist.
<end of quote>
Supreme Court Justice Lars Edlund has expressly contradicted
that. He's
made very clear that the decision is specifically about a
large-scale
online database, and does not impact users who want to post a
picture to
Facebook or Instagram.
http://www.svt.se/kultur/konst/brottsligt-sprida-bilder-av-offentligt-konst-pa-natet
http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Domstolar/hogstadomstolen/Avgoranden/2016/2016-04-04%20%C3%96%20849-15%20Beslut.pdf
Andreas
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