On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxwell@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
For clarity sake I should point out that the neither the complaint to Wikimedia, nor the response to the OTRS reply, included any offer of compromise.
Also worth mentioning is that a copyright complaint by the NPG in 2006 where the initial response from our side was "What we're doing is permitted by US law" was satisfactorily resolved by providing attribution and back-links on the image page.
I suspect the increasing number of commercial partnerships to provide access to PD works is moving the bar and sending some webtraffic and attribution is no longer competitive with with others are able to offer providing that the content can be locked up and exclusive access assured.