Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Foundation-l] "sue and be damned" FOI to NPG

Perhaps the air would be slightly clearer if Wikimedia UK were to make Freedom 
of Information Act requests to the NPG and other Publicly funded galleries for 
the highest def digital photos they have available of any artworks in their 
possession.



--- On Sat, 11/7/09, Virgin, Steve <Steve.Virgin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Virgin, Steve <Steve.Virgin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to 
> the National Portrait Gallery ...
> To: "'wikimediauk-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <wikimediauk-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, 11 July, 2009, 12:17 PM
> 
> David makes some excellent points. May I suggest one
> thing?  
> 
> Wouldn't it better if journalists were making the calls
> that david rightly suggests?
> 
> If we have some 'friends' in this newspaper community could
> we not tell them what david explains below and get them to
> make this call?
> 
> If we wake them up to the weakness of their position they
> will simply fix it. 
> 
> If we get the news  'out there'  we can simply be
> interested bystanders watching their troubles. A nicer
> situation to be in. 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: wikimediauk-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <wikimediauk-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sat Jul 11 11:43:42 2009
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Foundation-l] About that "sue
> and be damned"    to the National Portrait
> Gallery ...
> 
> 2009/7/11 David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > It gets better: the editor they sent the threat to is
> an American.
> > So, to recap: A UK organisation is threatening an
> American with legal
> > action over what is unambiguously, in established US
> law, not a
> > copyright violation of any sort.
> > I can't see this ending well for the NPG.
> 
> 
> In fact, the more legal success they have with this
> approach (and they
> do have a plausible cause in the UK, if they throw enough
> money at
> arguing so), the more *utterly radioactive* the publicity
> for them
> will be.
> 
> Iâll be calling the NPG first thing Monday (in my
> capacity as âjust a
> blogger on Wikimedia-related topicsâ) to establish just
> what they
> think theyâre doing here. Other WMF bloggers and, if
> interested,
> journalists may wish to do the same, to establish what
> their
> consistent response is.
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> 


      

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