[WikiEN-l] [bhorrocks at npg.org.uk: National Portrait Gallery images on Wikipedia website]

Wed Aug 4 04:51:15 UTC 2004

On
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights/archive2#Adaptati
ons_of_public_domain_images , [[User:JamesDay]] argues that photographs
and scans of public domain materials (which these portraits surely would
be, given their age), with no creative work applied, do not grant
copyright to the photographer/scanner. But (a) he was talking about US
law, not British law, and (b) he might be wrong anyway, IANAL. :-)

David Carson

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-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2004 14:38
To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org; wikien-l at wikimedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] [bhorrocks at npg.org.uk: National Portrait Gallery
images on Wikipedia website]

It would please me greatly to be able to respond that their claims are
preposterous.  Shall we research this carefully?

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From: "Bernard Horrocks" <bhorrocks at npg.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:23:33 +0100
To: <jwales at bomis.com>
Subject: National Portrait Gallery images on Wikipedia website

Dear Sir,

We notice you have a number of images on your website (e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare;
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark ) which are of portraits in
the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.<?xml:namespace
prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

As we do not appear to have licensed copies of these portraits for use
on your website, we wondered whether you would let us know the source
from which you obtained the reproductions.

All photographs, scans, text and other material on the National Portrait
Gallery's website are protected by international copyright laws.
Unauthorised reproduction of such content may be an infringement of such
laws.

I look forward to hearing from you regarding this matter.

Yours sincerely,

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