[Wikipedia-l] [bhorrocks at npg.org.uk: National Portrait Gallery images on Wikipedia website]

[Stan Shebs]

Incidentally, Googling for "Bernard Horrocks" turns up some interesting
pages from the netherworld of copyright researchers, but no obvious
blackmail material, alas. :-)

Stan

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:

>It would please me greatly to be able to respond that their claims are
>preposterous.  Shall we research this carefully?
>
>----- Forwarded message from Bernard Horrocks <bhorrocks at npg.org.uk> -----
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>From: "Bernard Horrocks" <bhorrocks at npg.org.uk>
>Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:23:33 +0100
>To: <jwales at bomis.com>
>Subject: National Portrait Gallery images on Wikipedia website
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>Dear Sir,
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>We notice you have a number of images on your website (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare;   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark ) which are of portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
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>As we do not appear to have licensed copies of these portraits for use on your website, we wondered whether you would let us know the source from which you obtained the reproductions.
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>All photographs, scans, text and other material on the National Portrait Gallery's website are protected by international copyright laws.  Unauthorised reproduction of such content may be an infringement of such laws.
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>I look forward to hearing from you regarding this matter.
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>Yours sincerely,
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