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@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2004 14:38 To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org; wikien-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] [bhorrocks@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@npg.org.uk Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:23:33 +0100 To: jwales@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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