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UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User
jpatokal writes "The National Portrait Gallery of London is threatening litigation against a Wikipedia user over his uploading of pictures of some 3,000 paintings, all 19th century or earlier and firmly in the public domain. Their claim? The photos are a 'product of a painstaking exercise on the part of the photographer,' and that downloading them off the NPG site is an 'unlawful circumvention of technical measures.' And remember, the NPG's taxpayer-funded mission is to 'promote the appreciation and understanding of portraiture in all media [...] to as wide a range of visitors as possible!'"
*17 minutes* to copy a file on your Mac, you say?
that would be so typical of the modern age.
here on wikileaks we have details of covert military operations, evidence that the conspiracy theories are true and (particularly risky, this) photos of paintings from the 1790s.
i mean, wtf?
I'm not a lawyer or anything ... but that just sounds like a really, really bad idea.
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It's true. I was in the Nat. Gallery a while back and I would have loved to take a photo of two Japanese ladies wearing stunning kimono, but would probably have been thrown out for whipping out my Canon.
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Can I volunteer for that job? Don't mind the color vision thing - I'm usually pretty sure that red is red, and green is green. I mean, it's not THAT important is it?
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Huh? Did England secede?