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

[David Gerard]

2009/7/11 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>:

> In the case of GalleriNOR several people uploaded images from the site
> without prior agreement with neither NB nor NF. After a while I get in
> touch with them and asked how we should handle the case, what people
> believed was the right thing to do from our side and what NB and NF
> wanted to do. First the stand was established as "the images must be
> deleted" and "we don't want to delete them", then we said "okey we will
> attempt to get them deleted through due process - but hey, how much of
> the traffic come from our site?" Then things get a bit amusing. The
> thing is, about 60% of the traffic originates from Wikimedia Commons and
> with the additional internal traffic generated from this we probably
> generates over 80% of the traffic on the site. This isn't neglible
> amouths of traffic on a site, removing the images on Commons would pull
> the plug on the majority of the traffic.


:-D

We should ask the NPG about their website traffic ;-)

Do all NPG images have a link back? They should.


- d.