On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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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.