Hopefully nobody will be in a rush for deletion. An opinion from WMF legal
would make more sense before we take action on wiki.

Fae

On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, 14:00 Diego Delso via Commons-l <
[email protected] wrote:

> Really sad news. An enthusiastic photographer that has no more benefit
> than the satisfaction of sharing knowledge to the world, gets charged and
> loses a lawsuit. I think that the movement has to provide an answer,
> otherwise we should protect photographers who may be not aware of this
> risk. I run a quick check and realised that we have e.g. hundreds of images
> from the Glyptothek a museum in Munich with significant greek and roman
> scultpures under
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Glyptothek_Munich_-_Permanent_collections
>
> But, unfortunately we are not supposed to have them without an explizit
> authorisation:
>
> http://www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Sonstiges/12-03-09_Auflagen_Foto_Film.pdf
> and the list could be long...
>
> Now, what should we do about it? wait and see or delete?
>
> El jue., 20 dic. 2018 a las 14:50, Sebastian Rittau via Commons-l (<
> [email protected]>) escribió:
>
>> On 20.12.18 14:16, Fæ via Commons-l wrote:
>>
>> Is there going to be an appeal?
>>
>> Appeal won't be possible. This already was a ruling by Germany's highest
>> court. Going by the linked summary there are two cases to distinguish:
>>
>>    - Photographs by the museum are under "Lichtbildschutz" (50 years
>>    post publication, not full 70pma), because the photographer has multiple
>>    options concerning several parameters. (This verdict seems wrong, because
>>    there aren't the mentioned parameters are fixed in repro photography. 
>> Again
>>    the BGH shows its incompetency regarding photography. But it is as it is.)
>>    - Photographs by a visitor are a contract violation. The photographer
>>    is liable to restitution. In this case by not uploading the images any
>>    further. There is nothing about redistribution by third parties, though.
>>
>>  - Sebastian
>>
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