On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Scott, the director of rights and reproductions a the
NPG kindly wrote directly back to me very quickly and said (quoting with permission):
"We did, indeed, investigate immediately. I am expecting changes to be made,
shortly."
So, I assume that not only will changes be made to their website soon but we'll be
informed what as soon as it does.
Sincerely,
-Liam
Sent from my phone.
Wittylama.com/blog
On 13/06/2011, at 15:19, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> It was raised with the NPG, as promised, at the time. They assured me they would
investigate immediately on the pages indicated as well as make a random sampling of other
pages on their site to see if it had happened elsewhere.
>
> I'll re-raise this with them today and get back to you when I know any news.
> Sincerely,
> -Liam
>
>
wittylama.com/blog
> Peace, love & metadata
>
>
> On 12 June 2011 22:53, Scott MacDonald <doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Back in March this year, I pointed out in Wikien-1 that the UKs National
> Portrait Gallery, was reusing Wikipedia content (and in particular my work)
> without any attribution (and indeed was claiming copyright).
>
>
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2011-March/108731.html
>
> This got some attention at the time, and coverage in the en.wp Signpost.
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-03-21/News_an
> d_notes
>
> The matter ended when it was indicated that WMF people in the GLAM project
> would raise it with the NPG as a matter of urgency.
>
>
> However, I note that the NPG continues to use copyrighted material without
> attribution and with a false copyright claim.
>
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?search=sa&LinkID=mp…
>
>
>
>
Three thumbs up!!!
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