On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mike Godwin mnemonic@gmail.com wrote:
We cannot inform you about all the details communicated in an ongoing negotiation with parties threatening us with litigation. Apart from whether doing so would be consistent with legal ethics, it would also provide a disincentive for complaining parties to negotiate with us at all.
It sounds like you are suggesting that there is ongoing dialog between WMF and Gallimard.. ?
Official legal policy is to comply with properly crafted takedown notices. This has been our policy since long before I arrived at WMF. I'm surprised that you didn't know this before now.
And what is the process _after_ the takedown?
Did the National Portrait Gallery not provide a properly crafted take down notice?
-- John Vandenberg