User:Daniel Mietchen/Category:Images used by media organizations but violating license terms/Random samples

Usage patterns of a subset of images from Category:Images used by media organizations but violating license terms.

Signpost selection

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  Luc Montagnier, co-recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Photo by Túrelio, licensed CC BY-SA. It has been used over 100 times on non-Wikimedia websites, mostly without proper attribution. This included a press release by Springer on the Nobel prize; after notification, the image was taken down from there.
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  A GSM base station on a rooftop in Paris. Reused several times without proper attribution, including in this Cover image on a scholarly journal.
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  Mathematician Endre Szemerédi, recipient of the Abel Prize 2012 that is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Reused at least twice on the academy's website without proper attribution. One already taken down, one remains.
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  Used on SpringerImages twice (one already taken down, one in a book remains). Originally posted onto Flickr by Pear Biter under CC BY-SA. Licensing confirmed in 2009. Now labeled at Flickr as "All rights reserved".
• Used in Fig. 1 of a paper in the Springer journal Brain Structure and Function, together with three other images that had been generically attributed to Wikipedia, without mention of author (Eva Hejda) or license (CC BY-SA).
  Used in Fig. 1 of a paper in the Springer journal Brain Structure and Function, together with three other images that had been generically attributed to Wikipedia, without mention of author (Eva Hejda) or license (CC BY-SA).
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  Sample sites of the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition. Still on offer and watermarked at SpringerImages. Originally published in Template:Cite doi. Licensed CC BY.
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  A thunderstorm. By Rainer Knäpper. License artlibre. Selected as a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons. Reused several times without proper attribution.

Further examples

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  hundreds
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  hundreds
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  Dozens, with improvement over time
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  over 20x
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  20x
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  7x
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  2x+2 correct uses
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  2x+4 correct uses
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  2x+over 10 correct uses
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  2x+heavily used on WP
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  SpringerImages
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  Featured picture
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  The Times, London
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  News for Kids
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  Animal of the day
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  Tourist site - image remained long on diplay despite several emails and phone calls
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  Official brochure
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  Book
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  Book
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  Tourist site
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  Music site
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  Still in use on tourist site