Hi, I have a personal experience which is worth considering. One of my picture uploaded on Commons under CC-BY-SA was used without attribution by a political party on their website and 2 of their leaflets (printed to more than 10,000 copies each). I contacted them, and they immediately acknowledged that the license was not respected. Their excuse was "We didn't know", which is quite difficult to accept. But then they stopped answering to my mails. So I contacted a lawyer, who told me that I should ask "at least 5,000 euros". Then the politician said to my lawyer than "I have agreed to a compensation of a few euros", which is completely false. Consequence: My lawyer could not negotiate more than a few hundreds euros. Morality: It would have been much better for me to contact a lawyer directly rather than trying to negotiate an amicable agreement. :(
Regards, Yann 2017-03-05 15:30 GMT+01:00 James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com>: > Am looking into options. Am going to be discussing things with a lawyer. > Might be good to have a number of Wikipedians involved and will ask him. > > James > > On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > James, that's very helpful and I see at least one book on that list that > > violates the licence, and hence breaches my copyright, in content that I > > wrote. What's the best way forward? Should the WMF represent the > > community by engaging directly with the company responsible? Or should > it > > coordinate and advise individual contributors making numerous individual > > approaches? Or should it do nothing? What's best? > > > > "Rogol" > > > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 2:39 AM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Rupert here is a list of 213,000 books that are based on Wikipedia > > without > > > proper attribution. > > > > > > https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22CTI+Reviews%22 > > > > > > James > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 3:47 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > This thread is notably long on hypothetical and meta-level > discussions > > > > and very short on concrete examples of the supposedly problematic > > > > uploads under discussion. What are the generally accepted examples of > > > > what we're actually talking about here? > > > > > > > > > > > > - d. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > 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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > James Heilman > > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > > > > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > 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> > > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
