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Last year, I enforced the CC-BY license. It's not even a copyleft license, but the outcome was similar. Affinord, a cheese seller, used on their own website a
by Arkanosis 6y ago
Last year, I enforced the CC-BY license. It's not even a copyleft license, but the outcome was similar.
Affinord, a cheese seller, used on their own website a photograph I had shared under the CC-BY license on Wikimedia Commons, without any attribution (the only thing required by the license). So I sent them an email saying that I was very happy they used my photograph and explaining how the CC-BY works, asking them to fix the attribution issue. I never got an answer to my email, but the next day, the photograph had been taken down :-(
- jrootabega 6y agoI think one or more of a few things may have happened - The license was too ambiguous or unproven for them. Some companies refuse to use json.org libraries because of the "Don't Be Evil" clause - They didn't want to show an attribution in their marketing materials. (I agree it would be kind of weird as a potential customer.) - If they kept it up and credited you it might be evidence of their previous violation and evidence that they knew about it.
- cbsks 6y agoI think a likely explanation is that the non-technical person who got the email thought it would just be easier to remove the image than try to figure out how to add the proper attribution to the website.
- neltnerb 6y agoAnd they were almost certainly correct... that's probably what I'd do if the image was not especially important. But I'd also create my own graphics in the first place.