The vendor violates moral rights on all the items it offers for sale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%29
In particular, though, it happens to be useful that along the line they're selling Walt Disney's portrait with Mickey Mouse. Cheers, Durova On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > > On 15 Sep 2009, at 23:05, Durova wrote: > > > An eBay vendor is exploiting a volunteer restoration of the Holocaust. > > They are profiteering off public domain material (at least in the > case of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). As it's public domain, there's no > actual legal requirement to provide attribution... > > Although it's certainly not nice, is it actually breaking copyright/ > the law in this case? > > For copyrighted / Creative Commons images, it's obviously a very > different matter... > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
