[Foundation-l] At least 500 images will have to be deleted from the National Portrait Gallery

[Michael Maggs]

You are attempting to apply libel laws in a copyright context. The 
definition of publication is different.

Michael

geni wrote:
> 2008/7/23 teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi,
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>> i doubt you can say that the national gallery has choosen to publish in the
>> USA. There servers are probably in the UK, so i'd say that they publish in
>> the UK. That the pages can be viewed in the USA is a different matter.
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> UK courts would beg to differ see Lennox Lewis & Ors. v. Don King
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>> Analogy: If i print and publish/sell a book in the Netherlands, I publish it
>> here in the Netherlands. If some USA retailer orders 2000 copies to sell in
>> the states, that doesnt mean i publish them in the USA, merely that they are
>> for sale in the USA.
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> 2000? Try 20 we've had some interesting libel cases in the UK lately:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_Evil#Libel_controversy
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