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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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