Commons:Deletion requests/China images

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China images

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User "Nyo" has posted my (and other photog's) images without permission. Image:Taoist monk 5.PNGImage:Taoist monk clothes.PNG He is skirting the law by first uploading my (and other's) images onto PhotoBucket (under the user name Lavelk) [1], then linking to WikiMedia, claiming that it is "fair use" because the images first appeared on PhotoBucket. I know he took one of my images from my Flickr account, but I have no idea how he obtained the other (full-resolution) file. Not entirely sure WHY this person is going through so much trouble to distribute other photographer's art instead of just creating some of his own, but either way he does NOT have my permission to do so. I would like to request that WikiMedia immediately remove the following copyrighted images (they appear in my published book CHINA: Portrait of a People, so I can assure you they are mine, they are copyrighted, and I will take legal action if they are not deleted) and please also suspend this user and his IP address from further uploads. Thank you. Tom Carter [2] --Tomcarter (talk) 03:27, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. With all due respect, I see none of the images from [3] or from your Flickr account appear at Lavelk's photobucket pages. If the images here at the Commons that come from Lavelk's photobucket page are really your photos, please contact OTRS at the e-mail address permissions-commons@wikimedia.org, or send a DMCA takedown notice to our designated agent. In both cases, you will, I think, need to provide evidence that these are indeed your photos, not Lavelk's. Lupo 08:38, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to compare the Special:Search "Lavelk" pictures on Commons, and the 64 megabyte zip file released for press coverage on the book publisher's website : http://www.blacksmithbooks.com/China_portrait_preview.htm , but I found no striking similarity between the two sets. Teofilo (talk) 10:30, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delete I believe with Tom Carter that Lavelk is Nyo (this is a clue) and this is a case of "photobucketwashing" (instead of flickrwashing). --Jaqen (talk) 09:03, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, this dragon is indeed strange. Seems to exist in other versions, too, for instance this. Of the gray version, I've found only smaller on-line versions, but at least one[4] used in November 2007, whereas the upload here was in February 2008. Looks fishy. And Image:Sikh temple in the USA.PNG is taken from here. That girl also exists here, again smaller, but according to the URL from 2006, whereas Nyo's upload here was in September 2007. Starts to look indeed as if Nyo's uploads are not kosher. (Somehow, that user name rings a bell... but I can't remember why...) Lupo 10:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
From what I see on Commons:Deletion requests/Series by Nyo, user:Nyo seems to be someone who is serious about third party rights. Teofilo (talk) 10:47, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And there's also number II. He has also been blocked indefinitely on de.wp and (finally) on it.wp. --Jaqen (talk) 11:09, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You can't say for sure that a 3-letter nickname represents always the same person all over the world. Teofilo (talk) 11:13, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Obviously I don't believe that Commons's Nyo is the same as WP only because of the nickname, but also because oh his edits. Moreover, in an old (deleted) version of his it user page he had a link to his user page on Commons. I suppose he had a link to it.wp here on Commons but I cannot check. --Jaqen (talk) 13:17, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
His user page here was written in Italian and had links to da, en, en:wikt, es, fr, nl, pl, pt, sv, tr, and zh for "Nyo" and to de, id, and ja for the nick "Nyo it". Lupo 22:19, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The two images were deleted as per [5]. Lupo 09:24, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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