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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery To Sue [b]Wikipedia User?[/b]
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A US citizen who uploaded thousands of images of National Portrait Gallery paintings to Wikipedia has been threatened with legal action, if a letter from ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia might get sued by the National Portrait Gallery[/b]
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Or rather, a Wikipedia user, perhaps a Wikipedia updater, might get sued by the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. Put very simply, the National ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery bitchslaps [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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User DCoetzee uploaded the images here to the Wikimedia Commons site. The Gallery says it contacted the ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia in hot water with National Portrait Gallery[/b]
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by News Editor Wikipedia is the undisputed champion of online encyclopaedias these days. However, that doesn't mean that the information-collating site is ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia slapped with National Portrait Gallery copyright order[/b]
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A developer for the Wikimedia Foundation has been given a copyright infringement notice by the National Portrait Gallery, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />British National Portrait Gallery May Sue [b]Wikipedia User For ...[/b]
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By Lucian Parfeni, Web News Editor A Wikipedia user who uploaded thousands of photos of portraits from the British National Portrait Gallery in London is ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia At Odds With British National Portrait Gallery Over ...[/b]
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A Wikipedia contributor who uploaded several images of the portraits from the British National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London has reportedly been slapped ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery sends lawyers after [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The London gallery has called in its lawyers after a Wikipedia user took high-res images from its site and uploaded them to the encyclopedia. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery sues [b]Wikipedia over copyright[/b]
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The National Portrait Gallery is suing internet giant Wikipedia for breach of copyright - after 3000 images from their website were uploaded to the online ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery launches legal battle against [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The National Portrait Gallery has launched a legal battle against internet giant Wikipedia for breach of copyright - after 3000 images from their website ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia in trouble with National Portrait Gallery[/b]
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The latest mini-scandal to hit Wikipedia is that the National Portrait Gallery is beginning legal proceedings against the online encylopedia. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery in legal fight with [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The gallery, situated near Trafalgar Square in London, said the online user-generated encyclopaedia had uploaded more ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery responds to [b]Wikipedia copyright case[/b]
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News broke recently that the National Portrait Gallery had issued a copyright infringement letter to a volunteer Wikipedia uploader, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Legal row over National Portrait Gallery images placed on [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The National Portrait Gallery has threatened legal proceedings for breach of copyright against a man who downloaded thousands of high-resolution images from ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Legal row over National Portrait Gallery images placed on [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The National Portrait Gallery has threatened legal proceedings for breach of copyright against a man who downloaded thousands of high-resolution images from ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery ripped off by [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Gallery in [b]Wikipedia legal threat[/b]
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The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is threatening legal action after 3300 images from its website were uploaded to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Images Provoke Legal Threat From National Portrait Gallery[/b]
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LONDON— The National Portrait Gallery is not happy with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by, well, everyone. While the gallery does not plan to ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery sues [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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Wikipedia is being sued for breach of copyright by the National Portrait Gallery after 3000 images from its site were uploaded on to the online encyclopedia ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery in legal fight with [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The gallery, situated near Trafalgar Square in London, said the online user-generated encyclopaedia had uploaded more than 3000 copyright ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia statement on National Portrait Gallery legal threat ...[/b]
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Wikipedia, the free-to-use online encyclopedia, has issued an official response to the National Portrait Gallery (NPG)'s claim that it breached UK copyright ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery in legal fight with [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery in legal fight with [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The gallery, situated near Trafalgar Square in London, said the online user-generated encyclopaedia had uploaded more than 3000 copyright protected images ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />UK National Portrait Gallery in legal fight with [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The gallery, situated near Trafalgar Square in London, said the online user-generated encyclopaedia had uploaded more than 3000 copyright protected images ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />National Portrait Gallery in legal threat over [b]Wikipedia images[/b]
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By Wire News Sources on July 16, 2009 The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is threatening legal action after 3300 images from its website were uploaded to ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia's Gallery guy hung up to dry?[/b]
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Exclusive Wikimedia Foundation says it's standing behind Wikipedia contributor Derrick Coetzee in his defence ...

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QUOTE(WMF @ as quoted in El Reg)
"The Wikimedia Foundation sympathizes with cultural institutions' desire for revenue streams to help them maintain services for their audiences. And yet, if that revenue stream requires an institution to lock up and severely limit access to its educational materials, rather than allowing the materials to be freely available to everyone, that strikes us as counter to those institutions' educational mission."

I agree with that view, which is why I don't understand why, last summer, Jimbo declared a Wikiversity-hosted course on media ethics to be "beyond the scope of the project."

In Jimbo's case, it wasn't the revenue stream that triggered his edict, but the fear that a course on media ethics would expose the underlying corruption of portions of the community.
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia painting row escalates[/b]
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By Wire News Sources on July 17, 2009 By Rory Cellan-Jones The battle over Wikipedia's use of images from a British art gallery's website has intensified. ...

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QUOTE(Moulton @ Fri 17th July 2009, 7:54am) *

QUOTE(WMF @ as quoted in El Reg)
"The Wikimedia Foundation sympathizes with cultural institutions' desire for revenue streams to help them maintain services for their audiences. And yet, if that revenue stream requires an institution to lock up and severely limit access to its educational materials, rather than allowing the materials to be freely available to everyone, that strikes us as counter to those institutions' educational mission."

I agree with that view, which is why I don't understand why, last summer, Jimbo declared a Wikiversity-hosted course on media ethics to be "beyond the scope of the project."

In Jimbo's case, it wasn't the revenue stream that triggered his edict, but the fear that a course on media ethics would expose the underlying corruption of portions of the community.


Note that the message from the WMF was not written by Jimbo (thank God, because then it would have included a lot of "so, you see"s and "the way I see it"s and "the way our community looks at it"s). You have to get beyond the unilateral (and therefore foolish) actions of Jimbo on his own.

The dude banned me from Wikipedia for no sound reason, Barry. It took a couple of years for "the community" to realize what a retarded move that was, and to reverse it.
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia fights back in Portrait Gallery row[/b]
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The Wikimedia Foundation says it will back its volunteer even if the National Portrait Gallery takes legal action. By Nicole Kobie, 17 Jul 2009 at 17:18 The ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />British National Portrait Gallery Faces [b]Wikipedia In Battle Over ...[/b]
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Wikipedia has rebuffed the British National Portrait Gallery over allegations that Wikimedia's system administrator, Derrick Coetzee, might have infringed ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Dispute Between [b]Wikipedia, Art Gallery Heats Up[/b]
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A dispute over Wikipedia's use of images from the Web site of a British art gallery is heating up as the online encyclopedia accuses the National Portrait ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia contributor sued for uploading images[/b]
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How many hours did it take Coetzee to upload the images to Wikipedia, asks Katherine Hannaford. The National Portrait Gallery has taken on a Wikipedia ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Drawing up battle lines – art gallery takes on [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia man beats gallery's legal threat deadline (update 21 July)[/b]
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A Wikipedia volunteer accused of breaching copyright by uploading photos of paintings held at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has responded to the ...

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