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[electronic museum] As to Dan’s question of whether there were links to NPG, the answer is yes, links to the relevant pages at the NPG website were included from when all these images were first uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

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[PEOPLEPOINTS] P E O P L E P O I N T S: Wikimedia Commons - National Portrait ...: The National Portrait Gallery in London, NPG, is currently in legal dispute with the Wikimedia Commons and a user who scraped 3000 images from the NPG web site and put them up on Wikimedia Commons, here. The claim is that as the works .

[Past Thinking] Past Thinking » Blog Archive » National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia: I was rather disappointed to have received this response to my post privately, which itself misunderstood what I was suggesting, as it means I cannot publish it here with my response, but I can say that I hope this anonymous individual will maintain a correspondence to make very clear a) what his/her opinion is and b) how projects like Wikimedia Commons can work more openly _with_ organisations like NPG so conflict like this doesn’t have to arise again. I can say, however, that the individual cited the Bridgeman Art Library vs Corel case in the US in his/her response, to which I replied that the ruling does not apply as a UK precedent as many of us who have been involved in collections digitisation realised a long time ago.

[David Gerard] David Gerard » Blog Archive » Wikimedia writes on the NPG legal ...: So, if the NPG does follow through and it does go to court in the UK and the courts in the UK uphold that yes, these images are copyright under UK law, will the WMF pay the NPG for each and every copyright infringement that has taken place (i.e. every single unique page view on each individual image) or will the WMF continue with their stance of “we’re not bothering to comply with UK law on this”?

[LibertyVoice] Fight at the Museum: London's National Portrait Gallery Takes Aim ...: The National Portrait Gallery in London has threatened to take legal action against a U.S. citizen who posted images of the gallery's paintings of rich, white, and dead British people onto Wikimedia Commons. The NPG sent a detailed .

[About.com Art History] National Portrait Gallery Robbed: If a website claims copyright and can prove it is legally entitled to do so, end of story. There is absolutely no question that the NPG can claim copyright in this case.

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Old Nick and the National Portrait ...: The Wikimedia Foundation sympathizes with cultural institutions’ desire for revenue streams to help them maintain services for their audiences. And yet, if that revenue stream requires an institution to lock up and severely limit access to its educational materials, rather than allowing the materials to be freely available to everyone, that strikes us as counter to those institutions’ educational mission.

[meanwhile...] meanwhile”¦ » Blog Archive » (UK National Portrait Gallery vs ...: Assuming a certain level of technological ignorance on behalf of the NPG it is fairly safe to assume that they thought they where only making available 500 * 400 pixel images and allowed users of the website to see 500 * 400 px sections of the paintings in high resolution. Before Coetzee proved them otherwise the NPG probably never realized that this meant that the entire high-res files needed to be on a web-server somewhere2.

[Creative Commons » Commons News] UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia user over public ...: Recently, the UKâ â™s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) threatened legal action under UK law against a Wikipedia user for, among other... However, the NPG's disappointing actions should not overshadow the many institutions working to make the public domain accessible to you, the public.

[David Gerard] David Gerard » Blog Archive » NPG-WMF talks are in progress. What ...: Second, the NPG should free-license most of its images, or something close: I could see an arrangement where they used the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license for their work, while continuing to hold a monopoly on commercial use. This would certainly be consistent with their mission and even largely with their concern about supporting the gallery.

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Derrick Coetzee vs National Portrait ...: There has been no formal response from the internet encyclopedia but Derrick Coetzee, who downloaded the images, promptly uploaded the letter from the London lawyers Farrar and Co, “to enable public discourse on the issue”. He said he was taking legal advice .

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