On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:35 PM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/18 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
What is most striking to my mind in this issue of use of images, is how the status quo differs from that with regard to _texts_.
Yes. One has to keep in mind, of course, that the NPG is qualitatively different to most museums, and behaves much more like Gollum with the One Ring. My *precioussss.*
This anonymous comment on the WMF blog was interesting:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/16/protecting-the-public-domain-and-sharin...
# A Publisher Says: July 17th, 2009 at 22:58
Excuse me for not posting under my real name, but I’m a publisher of academic books in the UK, and I don’t want to embarrass my employers, since I’m not speaking on behalf of the firm.
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Thanks for posting that, David. It was a fascinating read!
Carcharoth