Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the National Portrait Gallery ...

2009/7/11 geni <geniice@xxxxxxxxx>:
> General opinion is that creativity isn't required for copyright in the
> UK as long as enough work went into it.

My brow doesn't generally sweat when I take photographs, but that is
presumably the approach they would take.

> From a legal POV there is little point in fighting this in the UK. Far
> better to fight when it hits the US if the NPG is stupid enough to
> take it that far.

As they say in their email, there is clear precedent that it isn't
illegal in the US, so they aren't going to take it there.

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