[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the National Portrait Gallery ...

[Robert Rohde]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Ray Saintonge<saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Nathan wrote:
>> If Dcoetzee complies with the request made in the letter from the NPG, and
>> some other
>> user from the U.S. (having previously made copies of the images at issue)
>> uploads them
>> again, what recourse would the NPG have wrt its database rights and TOS
>> claims?
>>
>>
> Or better still if those alleged 3300 portraits were re-added by 330
> people contributing 10 each.

I don't think now is a good time to encourage such silliness.  Yes,
the case would be different if 300 people were involved from the very
beginning, but you aren't going to greatly alter the shape of things
by involving an extra 300 people in this way after the fact.

-Robert Rohde