Hi Fae

You may not have seen my message to this list a few weeks ago that I had been in touch with the Director at Tullie House Museum, who thinks the copyright notice may be a mistake on their part - however he needed to check with the curator responsible who was on holiday at the time. I suspect the curator will be back now so this is a timely reminder to chase this up, which I will do!

Cheers

Lucy

On 30 August 2017 at 19:50, Fæ <faewik@gmail.com> wrote:

Ping :-)

It's been over a month, does anyone know if the Tullie House Museum
has removed the misleading copyright notices?

If there has been no contact yet, I'd be happy to send off a letter as
a long term Wikimedia Commons volunteer to the BM and the THM for an
official response that I can add to the record on Commons.

Thanks,
Fae

On 28 July 2017 at 13:34, Lucy Crompton-Reid
<lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi Fae, Andy, and all
>
> I agree that trying to apply copyright to a 2000 year old item is pretty
> outrageous, although I'm going to suppose that it stems from ignorance
> rather than anything else. We have some contacts at the BM although I'm not
> sure about Tullie House Museum, however I'm happy to contact both
> institutions, in the first instance, to give them the opportunity to correct
> this. I'll let you know how I get on.
>
> Cheers
> Lucy
>
> On 28 July 2017 at 13:24, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 28 July 2017 at 13:11, Richard Nevell
>> <richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>> > Attempting to embarrass the British Museum is misguided and certainly
>> > would
>> > not build bridges for future collaboration.
>>
>> Perhaps, but as Fae indicates, it might also cause some movement.
>>
>> What's your - WMUK's, I mean - alternative proposed action?
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