[Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Scott, the director of rights and reproductions a the NPG kindly wrote directly back to me very quickly and said (quoting with permission):
> "We did, indeed, investigate immediately. I am expecting changes to be made, shortly."
>
> So, I assume that not only will changes be made to their website soon but we'll be informed what as soon as it does.
>
> Sincerely,
> -Liam
>
> Sent from my phone.
> Wittylama.com/blog
>
> On 13/06/2011, at 15:19, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott,
>> It was raised with the NPG, as promised, at the time. They assured me they would investigate immediately on the pages indicated as well as make a random sampling of other pages on their site to see if it had happened elsewhere.
>>
>> I'll re-raise this with them today and get back to you when I know any news.
>> Sincerely,
>> -Liam
>>
>> wittylama.com/blog
>> Peace, love & metadata
>>
>>
>> On 12 June 2011 22:53, Scott MacDonald <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> Back in March this year, I pointed out in Wikien-1 that the UKs National
>> Portrait Gallery, was reusing Wikipedia content (and in particular my work)
>> without any attribution (and indeed was claiming copyright).
>>
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2011-March/108731.html
>>
>> This got some attention at the time, and coverage in the en.wp Signpost.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-03-21/News_an
>> d_notes
>>
>> The matter ended when it was indicated that WMF people in the GLAM project
>> would raise it with the NPG as a matter of urgency.
>>
>>
>> However, I note that the NPG continues to use copyrighted material without
>> attribution and with a false copyright claim.
>> http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?search=sa&LinkID=mp07767
>>
>>
>>
>>

Three thumbs up!!!


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