Adam Curry to Sue over CC Licensed Images
Adam Curry, former MTV DJ and podcasting visionary, announced in episode #320 of his Daily Source Code podcast, that he will be suing a Dutch Tabloid based on the misuse of Creative Commons licensed work.
The tabloid “Weekend”, on Wednesday, ran a frontpage headline article about him and his family which included pictures which were taken off his flicker photostream.
Apart from suing the magazine for endangering his (15-year-old) daughter by publishing the address of her school and other personal details about her, Adam is sueing the magazine for copyright infringement by breaking the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike under which the photos in question were released.
Is this the first time the Creative Commons license will be taken to court?
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[...] Wormus.com kirjoittaa entisestä MTV:n DJ Adam Currysta joka on haastamassa hollantilaista tabloidlehteä oikeuteen Flickrissä julkaistujen kuvien tekijänoikeuksien rikkomisesta. The tabloid “Weekend”, on Wednesday, ran a frontpage headline article about him and his family which included pictures which were taken off his flicker photostream. [...]
I haven’t heard of one before. Adam Curry said in his DSC #341 that the Magazine’l lawyers might actually be arguing that it says “This photo is public” underneath each picture in Flickr” and that that would have been the reason the paper found it ok to use the pictures. If the court really would rule in favour of the paper it would be quite a setback for Yahoo, who owns Flickr now, and who thus has been widely endorsing the use of CC. Really interesting.
I haven’t heard of one before. Adam Curry said in his DSC #341 that the Magazine’l lawyers might actually be arguing that it says “This photo is public” underneath each picture on Flickr” and that that would have been the reason the paper found it ok to use the pictures. If the court really would rule in favour of the paper it would be quite a setback for Yahoo, who owns Flickr now, and who thus has been widely endorsing the use of CC. Really interesting.
de, – Sunday, February 22, 2004 at 11:47:29 (PST)
It’s a great website of yours. I surfed by and found it very informative. Bookmarked and check you back in a while
Flicker is really great when sharing photos over friends and families. I love the resize feature of Flickr.:-”