Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damage compensation to photographer for violation of license of a photo taken from Commons

2016-06-28 Thread Lodewijk
lol, I thought you were talking about another 'event' until I saw the link... (A) Lodewijk 2016-06-28 16:51 GMT+02:00 Cristian Consonni : > Hi, > > Last week a small case of copyright violation come to a positive > conclusion. > > Niccolò Caranti [[User:Jaqen]] is a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damage compensation to photographer for violation of license of a photo taken from Commons

2016-06-28 Thread Erlend Bjørtvedt
Interesting. I have personally experienced the same kind of violtion of rights many times from media and other professional authors, and I have several times asked for compensation which they have always granted. This includes large national media and the state broadcaster. I have usually claimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damage compensation to photographer for violation of license of a photo taken from Commons

2016-06-28 Thread Sydney Poore
Thank you for the information about this case. It is good to see it worked out to all satisfaction. Sydney On Jun 28, 2016 10:52 AM, "Cristian Consonni" wrote: > Hi, > > Last week a small case of copyright violation come to a positive > conclusion. > > Niccolò Caranti

[Wikimedia-l] Damage compensation to photographer for violation of license of a photo taken from Commons

2016-06-28 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi, Last week a small case of copyright violation come to a positive conclusion. Niccolò Caranti [[User:Jaqen]] is a Wikipedian and as a professional photographer also a very prolific Commons contributor to the point that he is a sysop both on itwiki and Commons. He recently discovered that one