Ended up with out the links, sorry: [1]http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/wikibrasil.org.html [2]https://www.whois.com/whois/107.180.2.118 [3]http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm#art24
Chico Venancio 2017-11-06 7:53 GMT-03:00 Chico Venancio <chicocvenan...@gmail.com>: > To all on the list, *this is characterization is filled with obvious > lies.* > > The DMCA was filed a month ago simply *DID NOT TAKE the site down*.[1] > Henrique quickly took down the article offending copyright and Godaddy > allowed it to continue to be hosted.[2] > > Henrique is a paid contractor of the user group Wiki Education Brazil that > has repeatedly harassed several members of our user group (Joalpe and > myself included). And is probably here acting as a Meatpuppet of another > user who is under an Office action interaction ban to interact with either > myself or João. > > That he goes on an international platform to call on the Dean of the > university were João works is egregious harassment and WMF should not only > impose severe sanctions, but review both the grant and affiliation > agreements with the "user group" were this comes from. > > On the merits, after the event the organizer harassed several of our > members, and to me it is completely understandable that João does not want > his name attached to an event that harassed him and others. There was on > more than one occasion hints of physical violence from a member of Wiki > Education Brazil, and at one point those hints came to level of actually > using the words "beating" in reference to another member of our user group, > Teles, who was also called a famous Wikipedia despot, that he needed > psychiatric attention, and that he needed to find a boyfriend on a public > facebook thread. > > The CC-BY 3.0 Henrique alleges to have on the article is clearly invalid > for several reasons, one being he did not have one from the co-authors of > the work. Even if he did, Brazilian law supersedes it and clearly states > that the author has the inalienable moral right to revoke any license and > remove from circulation in any form when the use represents an affront to > his image or reputation.[3] That Henrique confesses that he, and the user > banned from interacting with myself or Joalpe, knew that license was not > given by João and that an explicit revocation was placed onwiki, only makes > the copyright violation willful and demonstrates that no assumption of good > faith can be reasonably made. This was an explicit provocation from the > "User Group" Wiki Education Brazil to João. > > Best to all on the Wikimedia Movement, > > Hoping for a movement with less tolerance for harassment, > > Chico Venancio (User:Chicocvenancio) > > 2017-11-06 1:08 GMT-03:00 Henrique de Andrade <henriquedeandr...@gmail.com > >: > >> Friends, it took me a month to join forces and get the courage to write >> the >> story below. >> >> The Wiki Education Brazil user group has had its website [1] shutted down >> due to an attack using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and >> the >> most shocking of this story is that the legal threat was made by a >> "member" >> of the Wikimedia community: Mr. João Alexandre Peschanski, who uses the >> username Joalpe. >> >> My unreal saga began on October 7th when I received an email informing me >> that the WMF Support and Safety team had received a complaint from Joalpe >> that his copyright was being violated by the publication on the I CCBWIKI >> (I Brazilian Scientific Congress of Wikipedia) website of a paper which he >> is a co-author. >> >> I thought this situation was very strange and I imagined it was a >> misunderstanding. I promptly in good faith emailed Joalpe, copying WMF >> team, trying to figure out what could have led to this misleading >> interpretation that we were committing a copyright infringement. In the >> email I reminded him that he knows several members of the Wiki Edu Brazil >> group and that he could communicate directly with us if he was bothered >> with something and that, if he wanted to, I could remove from the site the >> work of which he is a co-author, even though it is on the CC-BY 3.0 >> license. >> >> To my surprise I never received a reply from Joalpe. Instead, two days >> after my contact arrives a message from GoDaddy (company where the Wiki >> Edu >> Brasil’s site is hosted in the United States) informing that we have >> received a "complete DMCA complaint", made by the Center for Research, >> Innovation and Diffusion in Neuromamatics of the University of São Paulo >> (CEPID NeuroMat - USP), signed by João Alexandre Peschanski. >> >> In this complaint he alleges that in the page that I made with the texts >> sent to the I CCBWIKI there would be a text of which he is one of the >> authors and that he would have revoked our authorization to publish it, >> accuses us of not giving the due credits in the work and implies that we >> would have copied the content from another conference, prior to CCBWIKI, >> where it would have been originally published. >> >> I lack words to describe my revolt at such absurd lies. First: not only >> was >> the authorization not revoked but also a Creative Commons publication >> could >> not have its permission revoked for sharing. Secondly, in fact his name >> did >> not appear on the page listing the papers, because the main author of the >> article did not register it correctly in the system, but when clicking on >> the file his name was in the credits correctly. Third: the published >> content was exactly the one sent by the author David Fernando Levon Alves >> on August 29, 2016, and until the current unfortunate legal threat I did >> not even know of the existence of Intercom conference, where I now know >> that the same paper had been presented in September 9th. >> >> And Joalpe knows all about it! Even on page that he links[2] in his >> complaint saying that is proof of him having revoked our authorization for >> publication, he clearly says that he disallows the publication of the >> paper >> his is the main author, and that he would talk to the other author to >> propose withdrawing the paper in question, and the chair of the event >> promptly replied indicating that the dialogue should continue through the >> conference management system (it is worth noting that he said he would >> like >> to withdraw his work because he has never seen an academic conference that >> does not pay for the transfer and accommodations for all, an argument that >> does not make any sense to anyone that minimally knows the reality of >> Brazilian academy). >> >> Still bewildered by this nonsense I had to decide what to do. The DMCA >> notice gave us two options: either to remove the illegally posted file or >> to contest the complaint. Thinking about justice, we would obviously opt >> for the second option because we were not doing anything illegal. But >> within the cruel logic of the DMCA, we were given an absurd 24-hour >> deadline to send a response and our page was already off. It is worth >> mentioning that at that moment our host removed all the pages in the >> domain >> wikibrasil.org, and not just the page with the annals of the previous >> conference. In this way, projects such as IWSC and WLM that were in key >> moments of their execution were also unavailable to users. So, to the very >> annoyance we had to remove the file (as if we were guilty!) In order to >> request that the sites be republished. >> >> Yet stunned by this, I asked for help from the WMF’s Trust & Safety and >> the >> Legal Team. Both were sympathetic, but the WMF's legal support policies >> provide support only for problems regarding content hosted on the >> foundation's servers, and since that was not the case, I could not receive >> formal legal support. Unsure, fearing the possible legal implications of >> the complaint, and without knowing how to defend myself I spoke with >> groups >> of free culture and defense of freedom of expression and concluded that >> the >> best way to defend myself would be to publicize the ongoing persecution. >> >> The days that followed were very difficult for me. Whenever I had to deal >> with any wiki subject I was taken by a feeling of revolt and could not do >> anything. I spent hours trying to write these words but I just couldn’t do >> it. Having to face a legal threat through the DMCA may already be >> something >> to wrap the stomach itself, but having to do it knowing that who denounces >> know he is lying, says himself a defender of free culture and is even a >> member of the Wikimedia community is unbelievably revolting! >> >> We all know that wikis communities are not a bed of roses and I have >> several times left and I stopped editing because of the bullying done by >> users like him. But this time I won’t shut up! The destructive behavior of >> this person has escalated in a way that is forcing me to spend all my time >> studying United States copyright law to defend myself from something I did >> not do, and he knows it well. This user used his influence to move the >> largest university in Latin America into an international legal threat >> against the movement he claims to be a part of. We need to stop it! >> >> For those who do not know this user, it is worth pointing out that he >> leads >> a users group, and receives funding from WMF to conduct outreach >> activities. I repeat: This person who uses the DMCA to legally threaten >> members of the Wikimedia community is receiving money from our movement to >> fund their projects. We can not accept this anymore! Joao Alexandre >> Peschanski (a.k.a. Joalpe) should be boycotted in every possible way by >> the >> Wikimedia movement. A copyright troll should never receive grants, be >> accepted in our spaces and have the right to speak on behalf of our >> community! >> >> In addition to measures within the Wikimedia community I also ask for your >> support to help with my defense of Joalpe's attack on the legal world. I >> call upon all advocates of free culture, freedom of knowledge and the >> Wikimedia movement to endorse the following petition [3], addressed to the >> University of São Paulo, demanding that it immediately withdraw the >> complaint of violation to the DMCA made against the Wiki Educação Brasil >> group, and that it immediately stops pursuing free-culture movements in >> Brazil and in the world: >> https://www.change.org/p/reitor-da-usp-pare-imediatamente- >> de-usar-a-justiça-americana-para-tirar-site-wiki-brasil-do-ar >> <https://www.change.org/p/reitor-da-usp-pare-imediatamente- >> de-usar-a-justi> >> >> I publish this letter still frightened, but already without fear and >> confident that united we will overcome one more attack that threatens not >> only the Wikimedia movement, but the whole culture of free knowledge. >> >> "Imagine a world in which every person on the planet has free access to >> the >> sum of all human knowledge. That is what we are doing." Jimbo Wales >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Henrique de Andrade (User: HenriqueCrang) >> >> [1] http://wikibrasil.org >> >> [2] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_Education_Brazil/ >> Events/Congresso_Científico_Brasileiro_da_Wikipédia/2016# >> Tr.C3.AAs_d.C3.BAvidas >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_Education_Brazil/ >> Events/Congresso_Cient> >> >> [3] >> https://www.change.org/p/reitor-da-usp-pare-imediatamente- >> de-usar-a-justiça-americana-para-tirar-site-wiki-brasil-do-ar >> <https://www.change.org/p/reitor-da-usp-pare-imediatamente- >> de-usar-a-justi> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
