Carcharoth wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Mathias Schindlermathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2007 at 9:22 AM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
And then presumably we should ask the National Portrait Gallery about their claimed copyright on hundreds of years old pictures. [*]
[*] hint: the NPG stopped sending us letters claiming this after Jimbo said "sue and be damned."
at least until now....
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1239244/UKs-National-Portrait-Gallery...
This is now in the UK newspapers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/14/national-portrait-gallery-w...
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?National_Portrait_Gallery_sues_Wiki...
One wonders about the state of journalism in England when the people at Metro can't tell the difference between a lawyer's letter and an actual lawsuit.
I can imagine some future encyclopaedist referring to Metro as a reliable source to establish that the NPG had in fact sued Wikipedia. (not even Wikimedia). Ec