[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[Carcharoth]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Mathias
Schindler<mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2007 at 9:22 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And then presumably we should ask the National Portrait Gallery about
>> their claimed copyright on hundreds of years old pictures. [*]
>>
>>
>> [*] hint: the NPG stopped sending us letters claiming this after Jimbo
>> said "sue and be damned."
>
> at least until now....
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1239244/UKs-National-Portrait-Gallery-Threatens-To-Sue-Wikipedia-User?art_pos=1

This is now in the UK newspapers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/14/national-portrait-gallery-wikipedia-row

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?National_Portrait_Gallery_sues_Wikipedia&in_article_id=702647&in_page_id=34

Carcharoth