Isn't it the best thing to remove the images, like they demand, and let
someone from the UK Wikimedia foundation contact them about the part where
they are saying "Our client remains willing to enter into a dialogue with
the Wikimedia Foundation to discuss terms upon which low-resolution images
of paintings in its collection can be made available on the Wikipedia
website and our client will continue to write to the Wikimedia Foundation
with requests for discussion. However, to date, the Wikimedia Foundation has
ignored our client’s attempts to negotiate this issue, preferring instead to
take a more harsh approach that one would expect of a corporate entity."...
It looks to me they want to do it for free, if you put some notice amongst
the picture.
They only thing that I don't understand is that they claim that no-one from
the wikimedia foundation ever responded to this. Is there any reason for
this?
2009/7/11 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
2009/7/11 John at Darkstar <vacuum(a)jeb.no>no>:
In the case of GalleriNOR several people uploaded
images from the site
without prior agreement with neither NB nor NF. After a while I get in
touch with them and asked how we should handle the case, what people
believed was the right thing to do from our side and what NB and NF
wanted to do. First the stand was established as "the images must be
deleted" and "we don't want to delete them", then we said "okey
we will
attempt to get them deleted through due process - but hey, how much of
the traffic come from our site?" Then things get a bit amusing. The
thing is, about 60% of the traffic originates from Wikimedia Commons and
with the additional internal traffic generated from this we probably
generates over 80% of the traffic on the site. This isn't neglible
amouths of traffic on a site, removing the images on Commons would pull
the plug on the majority of the traffic.
:-D
We should ask the NPG about their website traffic ;-)
Do all NPG images have a link back? They should.
- d.
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