Loren K. Wiseman photograph on Wikipedia

[mcgurk]

Hello all, I am forwarding a post on the Steve Jackson Games forum for your info (in the hope that someone may be able to help here)
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FROM LOREN K. WISEMAN

A photograph of me was posted to the Wiki article on me on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Loren_Wiseman.jpg.

Someone named "AmasaJoslin" (whoever that actually is) claims to be the holder of the copyright to this photograph.

I own the IP rights to this photograph. While I do not object to it being posted on the Wiki site, and am willing to allow it to be used under the terms of the Gnutella license noted there, I must insist that my ownership of the IP rights be noted. "AmasaJoslin" has given away something that is not his/hers to give.

If "AmasaJoslin" is on this board, or is known to anyone on this board, I ask that he/she get in contact with WikiPedia and make the appropriate corrections. Please spread this message to other boards in an attempt to get the news out.

Make this clear: I don't want to punish whoever uploaded the photo. I merely wish to have _my_ ownership of the IP rights acknowledged.

Thanks. This photo means a great deal to me, depicting as it does the fulfillment of one of my greatest wishes.
__________________
Loren Wiseman
Traveller Guru-in-Residence
Austin TX
www.lorenwiseman.com
www.irbw.com

 

[HG_B]

I'll keep my eyes open. BTW- Wiki shouldn't allow an anonymous source to claim ownership of ANYTHING. Talk about a HUGE policy flaw.

 

[rancke]

I'll keep my eyes open. BTW- Wiki shouldn't allow an anonymous source to claim ownership of ANYTHING. Talk about a HUGE policy flaw.

I don't think the poster is anonymous to Wikipedia. You have to register in order to get a 'handle' and also to edit.


Hans

 

[HG_B]

I don't think the poster is anonymous to Wikipedia. You have to register in order to get a 'handle' and also to edit.


Hans

Not the point. PUBLICLY claiming IP ownership while PUBLICLY anonymous. HUGE flaw. I post anonymously but my wife knows who I am. Irrelevant.

If you want to publicly claim ownership, you need to say who you are. Wiki is, sooner or later, going to get into deep sh-t in court over their policy...

 

[rancke]

Not the point. PUBLICLY claiming IP ownership while PUBLICLY anonymous. HUGE flaw. I post anonymously but my wife knows who I am. Irrelevant.

If you want to publicly claim ownership, you need to say who you are. Wiki is, sooner or later, going to get into deep sh-t in court over their policy...

I don't think so. It's not anynomously, it's pseudonymously. Authors have been asserting copyright under assumed names for a long, long time.


Hans

 

[far-trader]

Of possible interest the same user seems to have done the same thing with an article on Marc Miller:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marc_Miller_in_2009.jpg

(I'm presuming the user has no rights to the picture there either)

EDIT: And apparently there's more. The user seems to be adding pictures of game creators (Traveller?) which is a good thing imo. The not so good bit is the claim of authorship of images apparently not theirs, this one of Rich Banner for example, is cropped, and the original is even posted as well, showing it was part of a larger published article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RichBanner.jpg

 

[HG_B]

Of possible interest the same user seems to have done the same thing with an article on Marc Miller:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marc_Miller_in_2009.jpg

(I'm presuming the user has no rights to the picture there either)

Note in the pic. TM'ed Traveller Game Red Stripe running across...

 

[mcgurk]

All those images seem to have been taken from Rick Loomis's Rick Origins poker deck

which, incidentally, while stocks last, he is giving away if you donate to help out Loren

http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/loren.htm