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

Wed Aug 4 12:59:54 UTC 2004

There's an additional problem on non-english wikipedias. Since many
articles are translated form English to the local languages, the same
images are often re-uploaded with only a quick note "taken from the
English wiki" or something like that, despite multiple warnings that one
must note the original source.

Checking the status of those images requires looking them up in the
English wiki, which is not always trivial, and then following the usual
guidelines. Sometimes, if for example the English image gets deleted,
there's virtually no way of finding the original source.

I'm afraid this seems quite a common scenario :-(

Alfio

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Michael Snow wrote:

>All the more reason for us to get the new upload form up and running, so
>that people have to say what the source for an image is up front,
>instead of us chasing them down after the fact to find out where they
>got it. What are we waiting for at this point?
>
>--Michael Snow
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>Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
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>>It would please me greatly to be able to respond that their claims are
>>preposterous.  Shall we research this carefully?
>>
>>----- Forwarded message from Bernard Horrocks <bhorrocks at npg.org.uk> -----
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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
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>>Dear Sir,
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>>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" />
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>I look forward to hearing from you regarding this matter.
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>>Yours sincerely,
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