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Hmm, the text of the Creative Commons license is such that I would think such suits would be unsuccessful in court. Specifically, it has a section about reinsta
by zucker42 6y ago
Hmm, the text of the Creative Commons license is such that I would think such suits would be unsuccessful in court. Specifically, it has a section about reinstating your rights if you fix a violation of the license after you are notified. Has this ever been litigated? Of course receiving a demand letter is still a nuisance.
If this is a problem that you have knowledge about, have you ever considered contacting Creative Commons about this? They could perhaps provide legal guidance or even modify the next version of the license (if there is a next version).
- growt 6y agoI actually was sued over this exact thing and lost (and paid quite a bit of money). All for a little UI experiment that nobody saw but me, google and (via google image search) these vultures.
- zucker42 6y agoWow really, that's a pretty big problem. Which country?
- growt 6y agoGermany
- draugadrotten 6y agoSo you were copying somebody else's work for free, without even giving them the attribution they ask for as- and THEY are the vultures?
- growt 6y agoRead the grand parent comment for the practice I was referring to. Or are you just trolling?
- dang 6y agoPlease do not break the site guidelines yourself, regardless of how bad another comment was. It only makes things even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- growt 6y agoSorry for breaking the snarky-rule. I guess I'm still too touchy about that issue. Also: Big thank you to you and the other mods for keeping this place civil!
- dang 6y agoPlease do not post in the flamewar style to HN. It's against everything we're trying for here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yesenadam 6y agoPlease consider writing up the story and submitting as an HN post, that sounds horrific. Thanks.
- growt 6y agoI don't know if my writeup would add something new. It's actually a known practice here in germany (as I discovered after the fact). Here is a good article about it (in german and not the same photographer as in my case): https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Wikipedia-beraet-ueber-Distanzierung-von-Fotolizenz-Abzockern-3630842.html?seite=all https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Wikipedia-beraet-ueber-Dist...