All the more reason for us to get the new upload form up and running, so that people have to say what the source for an image is up front, instead of us chasing them down after the fact to find out where they got it. What are we waiting for at this point?
--Michael Snow
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
It would please me greatly to be able to respond that their claims are preposterous. Shall we research this carefully?
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From: "Bernard Horrocks" bhorrocks@npg.org.uk Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:23:33 +0100 To: jwales@bomis.com Subject: National Portrait Gallery images on Wikipedia website
Dear Sir,
We notice you have a number of images on your website (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark ) which are of portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
As we do not appear to have licensed copies of these portraits for use on your website, we wondered whether you would let us know the source from which you obtained the reproductions.
All photographs, scans, text and other material on the National Portrait Gallery's website are protected by international copyright laws. Unauthorised reproduction of such content may be an infringement of such laws.
I look forward to hearing from you regarding this matter.
Yours sincerely,
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Michael Snow wrote:
All the more reason for us to get the new upload form up and running, so that people have to say what the source for an image is up front, instead of us chasing them down after the fact to find out where they got it. What are we waiting for at this point?
I'll just point out that people already have to say where they got their images from. You people *are* deleting images without source information, right?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
There's an additional problem on non-english wikipedias. Since many articles are translated form English to the local languages, the same images are often re-uploaded with only a quick note "taken from the English wiki" or something like that, despite multiple warnings that one must note the original source.
Checking the status of those images requires looking them up in the English wiki, which is not always trivial, and then following the usual guidelines. Sometimes, if for example the English image gets deleted, there's virtually no way of finding the original source.
I'm afraid this seems quite a common scenario :-(
Alfio
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Michael Snow wrote:
All the more reason for us to get the new upload form up and running, so that people have to say what the source for an image is up front, instead of us chasing them down after the fact to find out where they got it. What are we waiting for at this point?
--Michael Snow
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
It would please me greatly to be able to respond that their claims are preposterous. Shall we research this carefully?
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From: "Bernard Horrocks" bhorrocks@npg.org.uk Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:23:33 +0100 To: jwales@bomis.com Subject: National Portrait Gallery images on Wikipedia website
Dear Sir,
We notice you have a number of images on your website (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark ) which are of portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
As we do not appear to have licensed copies of these portraits for use on your website, we wondered whether you would let us know the source from which you obtained the reproductions.
All photographs, scans, text and other material on the National Portrait Gallery's website are protected by international copyright laws. Unauthorised reproduction of such content may be an infringement of such laws.
I look forward to hearing from you regarding this matter.
Yours sincerely,
Bernard Horrocks
Copyright Officer
National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place London WC2H OHE
Direct T +44 (0) 20 7312 2442 F +44 (0) 20 7312 2464 www.npg.org.uk http://www.npg.org.uk/
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