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

[John at Darkstar]

I sent out a press release earlier today to newspapers in Norway. It was
sent to around 200 recipients. Perhaps others could do the same thing.

John

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/7/11 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 
>> It gets better: the editor they sent the threat to is an American.
>> So, to recap: A UK organisation is threatening an American with legal
>> action over what is unambiguously, in established US law, not a
>> copyright violation of any sort.
>> I can't see this ending well for the NPG.
> 
> 
> In fact, the more legal success they have with this approach (and they
> do have a plausible cause in the UK, if they throw enough money at
> arguing so), the more *utterly radioactive* the publicity for them
> will be.
> 
> I’ll be calling the NPG first thing Monday (in my capacity as “just a
> blogger on Wikimedia-related topics”) to establish just what they
> think they’re doing here. Other WMF bloggers and, if interested,
> journalists may wish to do the same, to establish what their
> consistent response is.
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
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