2009/7/12 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Tom Maaswinkel<tom.maaswinkel@
12wiki.eu> wrote: [snip]
They only thing that I don't understand is that they claim that no-one
from
the wikimedia foundation ever responded to this. Is there any reason for this?
That isn't what they claimed.
They claimed: "Our client contacted the Wikimedia Foundation in April 2009 to request that the images be removed but the Wikimedia Foundation has refused to do so […]"
The part I am talking about is the part where they say that they want to talk to the Wikimedia Fundation to have a discussion about making low-resolution images of paintings in its collection available!
2009/7/12 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Tom Maaswinkeltom.maaswinkel@12wiki.eu wrote: [snip]
They only thing that I don't understand is that they claim that no-one
from
the wikimedia foundation ever responded to this. Is there any reason for this?
That isn't what they claimed.
They claimed: "Our client contacted the Wikimedia Foundation in April 2009 to request that the images be removed but the Wikimedia Foundation has refused to do so […]"
The initial complaint (OTRS #2009060110061897 for those with access) was made by a commercial partner (in the US) of the NPG, and was the typically legally uninformed nonsense that comes in often enough to have a boilerplate reply. They were given the standard "Wikimedia and it's servers are based in the US. Under US law such images are public domain per Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. Therefore no permission is required to use them." response. Presumably the commercial vendor got the NPG to make the legal threat under UK law because we adequately expressed that there was clearly no copyright concern under US law.
They also stated: "However, to date, the Wikimedia Foundation has ignored our client’s attempts to negotiate this issue, preferring instead to take a more harsh approach that one would expect of a corporate entity."
Please— allow me to translate: "We're confused. We're used to dealing with organizations like YouTube who will roll over instantly even for the most obvious cases of CopyFraud. Why wont you play along with our effort to lock up and monetize the public domain?"
Thank you, Wikimedia Foundation, for not being yet another Web 2.0 get rich quick scheme.
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