[Openglam_members] Finnish Wartime Archive licensing

Thu May 2 15:08:30 UTC 2013

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at okfn.org> wrote:

> I think they mainly were thinking about the 'our data is going to be used
> by Nazis' argument to not open up.. Which indeed has never stopped anybody
> using images in an inappropriate way.
>
> Nice case study: Mathias Schindler of Wikimedia Germany once sued a group
> of neo-nazis who used one of his photos, that were available under a cc-by
> license, without attributing him. He won.
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28644
>
>

Wow, I had never seen that before. Thanks for posting it.

-Sarah

>
> 2013/5/2 Adam Green <adam.green at okfn.org>
>
>> These are great! Do you have any more info about what
>> such inappropriate usage might be? I'm struggling to imagine. I expect that
>> anyone wanting to any really inappropriate stuff with them maybe wouldn't
>> care about obeying licensing restrictions so much anyway, but I may be
>> wrong.
>>
>>
>> On 2 May 2013 11:53, Maarten Brinkerink <mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl>wrote:
>>
>>> Think I wouldn't hurt to at least point them to the fact that this makes
>>> them incompatible with other open knowledge initiatives like for instance
>>> Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Maarten
>>>
>>> Op 2 mei 2013, om 12:39 heeft Marttila Sanna-Maria <
>>> sanna.marttila at aalto.fi> het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Hey Joris, all
>>> >
>>> > It is a wonderful collection of photos isn't it. It has been so
>>> popular that the servers were down for many days. This was actually the
>>> collection that i was referring to, that they have "home-made" license
>>> information, they allow free and open use and re-use, but want to restrict
>>> the use in "inappropriate" (what ever that means). Me and Petri Kola
>>> (probably you met in Helsinki during the OKFestival) are planning workshops
>>> with users and developers to link these pictures with Finnish army's
>>> records etc.
>>> >
>>> > However that you reminded me!
>>> >
>>> > all the best,
>>> >
>>> > Sanna
>>> >
>>> > On 1.5.2013, at 22.22, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at okfn.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hi all, and particularly Sanna,
>>> >>
>>> >> I was just looking at this great collection of World War II photos
>>> from Finland. Really nice footage. The licensing here is again a bit weird,
>>> it basically says it is a CC-BY-SA license, although it is not mentioned.
>>> Sanna, might be worth getting in touch with explaining a bit and mention
>>> the fact that using the CC license will make a much stronger legal case?
>>> >>
>>> >> http://sa-kuva.fi/neo?tem=webneoeng
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers!
>>> >>
>>> >> Joris
>>> >>
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*Sarah Stierch*
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