---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sage Ross <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] International Olympic Committee tells Flickr user to change license To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]>
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Fajro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/10/9 Risker <[email protected]>: >>> Interesting article about how the International Olympic Committee is >>> cracking down even on CC-SA licenses: > > The blog of the photographer: > > http://richardgiles.com/2009/10/09/the-olympics-and-creative-commons-photographs/ > That clears things up a lot, and brings up a lot of new questions. Wikipedia is actually at the center of this whole thing: Richard Giles changed the license on this photo of Usain Bolt (first to CC-BY-ND to CC-BY-SA) http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgiles/2767537621/ at the request of a Wikipedian so that it could be added to Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usain_Bolt_Olympics_Celebration.jpg And Wikipedia is probably where the British merchant found the photo, which he used to promote a book. And that commercial use is what drew the attention of the International Olympics Committee. So now the IOC, it seems, wants Giles to put the CC-BY-SA genie back in the bottle. What are the legal implications here? Does the contract (private use only for photos) implicitly agreed to by Giles when he bought a ticket to the Olympics invalidate the CC-BY-SA license, despite that downstream re-users (like us) weren't a party to the original contract? -Sage _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
