lol, I thought you were talking about another 'event' until I saw the link... (A)
Lodewijk 2016-06-28 16:51 GMT+02:00 Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Last week a small case of copyright violation come to a positive > conclusion. > > Niccolò Caranti [[User:Jaqen]] is a Wikipedian and as a professional > photographer also a very prolific Commons contributor to the point > that he is a sysop both on itwiki and Commons. > > He recently discovered that one of his photos was used for an event > without respecting the terms of the CC-BY-SA license, i.e. without > proper attribution to him and reference to the license. > > Supported by Simone Aliprandi - a lawyer specializing in intellectual > property and author of a number of (free/libre) books on the topic of > licenses and Creative Commons in particular - they sent a formal > request to the organizers of the event. > > The issue has been resolved amicably with all legal costs paid by the > agency that was working for the organizers of the event (who admitted > their mistake) and a compensation for the author. > > You can read more about this case here: > > https://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2016/06/photo-from-wikipedia-violation-license-caranti.html > > Cristian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
