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

[David Gerard]

2009/7/11 Tom Maaswinkel <tom.maaswinkel at 12wiki.eu>:

> Isn't it the best thing to remove the images, like they demand, and let
> someone from the UK Wikimedia foundation contact them about the part where
> they are saying "Our client remains willing to enter into a dialogue with
> the Wikimedia Foundation to discuss terms upon which low-resolution images
> of paintings in its collection can be made available on the Wikipedia
> website and our client will continue to write to the Wikimedia Foundation
> with requests for discussion. However, to date, the Wikimedia Foundation has
> ignored our client’s attempts to negotiate this issue, preferring instead to
> take a more harsh approach that one would expect of a corporate entity."...
> It looks to me they want to do it for free, if you put some notice amongst
> the picture.


This is something to ask directly.


- d.