Hi, No, I didn't ask any help from the WMF. I don't know if it would have changed anything.
Regards, Yann 2017-03-05 21:07 GMT+01:00 Rogol Domedonfors <domedonf...@gmail.com>: > Yann > > Did you ask for, or receive, any help from the WMF? If so, was it > effective? If not, do you think you should have done? > > "Rogol" > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Yann Forget <yan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
