Family Misunderstands Open Source, Panics, & Sues the Wrong Person…家人误解开源恐慌, &状告错人… …
Open source is supposed to be a way of simplifying licensing issues and sharing your software/music/video/other content with the masses — freely and magnanimously.开源应该是一个办法,简化发牌事宜,并分享您在软件/音乐/视频/其他内容与群众-自由和善意。 Problem is, what happens when something open source is found to be a (possible) violation of some else’s rights?问题是,什么东西时,开放源代码是发现一个(可能)违反一些其他人的权利? What happens to its derivatives?怎么其衍生物? Do they just pack up shop and find something else, or are they legally responsible for their actions?他们刚刚收拾店找东西,或者是他们合法对其行动负责? In what seems poised to become a landmark case on this issue, we’re about to find out.在什么似乎即将成为一个里程碑案件,在这个问题上,我们将找到答案。
A Texan family得克萨斯家庭 is now suing现起诉 Virgin Mobile for using维珍移动使用 a photo of their daughter照片上的女儿 , Alison Chang, in an ad campaign – the catch is, it was released by the photographer on , alison长,在一个广告-捕获,它释放了摄影师对 Flickr在flickr under the下 Creative Commons Attribution创意公地归属 license, and that’s where Virgin Mobile got the photo from.执照,而且那里维珍得到照片。 The problem is, the girl featured in the photo had no idea her photo was being used – or that it was released under the Creative Commons license.问题是,女孩拍摄照片并不知情,她的照片被用来-或者说,它下释放创意公地许可。
As the case currently stands, the Changs are suing consumers of open source works and not the original party responsible for the release of the work as an open source material without a proper由于目前的情况来看,变化是消费者起诉开源工程,而不是原来的党负责发放工作,作为一个开放的素材未经适当 media consent form媒体同意表格 . 。
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