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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > > > > > -- > > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > <(617)%20529-4266> > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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