China: Nokia’s Creative Commons infringement?

China: Nokia's Creative Commons infringement?

Posted 3 August 2007 12:15 GMT

Countries	China
Topics	Law, Technology, Economics & Business

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· Chine: Nokia s'approprie une photo sous licence Creative Commons

China

“Everybody can freely use my Flickr pictures under the Creative Commons license, and because of that they end up on many websites,” writes Shanghai-based blogger Marc van der Chris in ‘Nokia copyright infringement?,' where he writes of finding one his photographs on the cellphone company's Europe site: “And amazingly they even dare to put Copyright Nokia 2007 next to it. So now they suddenly own the copyright to this picture? That's turning the world upside down Nokia!”

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