User:Vysotsky/Alamy

Alamy strikes back
No kidding: Alamy sends takedown notices to Wikipedia! To be exact: to the Wikimedia Foundation. See this letter, (dated 13 July 2022).

The disputed photograph, showing Mario Kempes in a Valencia shirt, was removed from Wikimedia Commons on 1 June 2023, see this "Office action".

The original photo was taken by Peter Robinson (Empics Sport), later part of PA Images. PA Images has acquired Alamy in 2020 (or was it the other way around?). Funny thing is of course that Alamy used to plunder other websites, take images that were in the public domain and sell them for up to $ 189 - see Serendipity in The Signpost]

Is it fun to see a thief accusing a website dedicated to open information of .... stealing? Let's take it as the joke it is, or as a compliment. Vysotsky (talk) 21:03, 23 August 2023 (UTC)