[Wikipedia-l] Obnoxious art galleries...

[Robert Graham Merkel]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:41:09AM +0000, wikipedia-l-request at Wikimedia.org wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 21:38:28 -0700
> From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] [bhorrocks at npg.org.uk: National Portrait
> 	Gallery	images on Wikipedia website]
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> It would please me greatly to be able to respond that their claims are
> preposterous.  Shall we research this carefully?
> 

I don't know about UK law, but the National Gallery of Victoria 
in Australia (with the shared legal tradition I believe the copyright
laws are similar) seems to believe that they own the rights to any 
photographs of the artworks they own, even if the artworks themselves 
are in the public domain.  You will note the copyright notice on 
this Australian website:

http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/Artists_mccubbin.htm

This is despite the fact that McCubbin died in 1917.

I have been meaning to get around to making further enquiries into this
in the Australian context, but haven't got around to it.  Given this
enquiry, it just got moved up my priority list.

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