There has never been a lawsuit for inappropriate reuse of cc media, has
there?

Does anyone even know of a case of a copyright holder getting paid without
a lawsuit in such a case?

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:43 PM Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote:

> I sent a message to website owners via the contact form.
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Wow, that's pretty blatant copyfraud. Anyone who owns those images should
>> have a pretty good case to sue him.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Tuszynski, Jarek W. <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Fearn <https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/paul-fearn.html> seems
>>> to have a little business of selling images from WLM and claiming their
>>> authorship. In the past others complained at OTRS (
>>> https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom;TicketID=10017069#
>>> ). Did anybody tried contacting
>>> https://fineartamerica.com/contactus.html?tab=contactus to shut him
>>> down?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jarekt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Commons-l [mailto:[email protected]] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Samuel Klein
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 03, 2018 1:14 PM
>>> *To:* Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition; Wikimedia Commons
>>> Discussion List
>>> *Cc:* Sarah Krichen
>>> *Subject:* EXTERNAL: Re: [Commons-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Copyfraud
>>> of WLM winners photo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yuck.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That said, perhaps we should think about integrating a link to a
>>> CC-friendly printshop that can produce prints roughly at cost, perhaps with
>>> the WP URL and license on the back.  (prints are basically the only service
>>> 'fineartamerica' provides.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In the US I use shortrunposters, ~$4 for a 2'x3' print (so, 5% the cost
>>> of fineartamerica); I bet there are others.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> SJ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Nicolas VIGNERON <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> TLDR: someone is stealing WLM photo on
>>> https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/paul-fearn.html?tab=artwork&page=11
>>> :/
>>>
>>> Longer story: WMFR just received an OTRS message from a WLM competitor
>>> who discovered that someone is wrongly taking credits for its WLM photos
>>> (and other WLM files and other files from Commons apparently) on the
>>> fineartamerica website. This competitor send a mail to this website and
>>> asked if WMFR can help in any way.
>>>
>>> So now, I'm sending you this mail to know whether you had to deal with
>>> things like this or if you have any ideas of what should be done.
>>>
>>> Cdlt, ~nicolas
>>>
>>>
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