Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-13 Thread Pharos
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Sue Gardnersusanpgard...@gmail.com wrote: Sure. Actually the New York chapter probably sends some press releases to US media too; I'm not sure. FYI We have had a number of contacts with journalists, but so far we have not been in the habit of putting out formal

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
What an insult, Derrick only rates a solicitor From: Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 3:17:50 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Please explain why would Derrick rate a solicitor ? Thanks, GerardM 2009/7/12 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com What an insult, Derrick only rates a solicitor From: Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread James Forrester
2009/7/12 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com: What an insult, Derrick only rates a solicitor As opposed to a barrister? You're mistaken; solicitors would be involved in such matters before going to court. Barristers would only be instructed by the solicitors when they were going to court (or,

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread Tom Maaswinkel
2009/7/12 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Tom Maaswinkeltom.maaswinkel@ 12wiki.eu wrote: [snip] They only thing that I don't understand is that they claim that no-one from the wikimedia foundation ever responded to this. Is there any reason for this?

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Tom Maaswinkeltom.maaswin...@12wiki.eu wrote: The part I am talking about is the part where they say that they want to talk to the Wikimedia Fundation to have a discussion about making low-resolution images of paintings in its collection available!

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/12 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Tom Maaswinkeltom.maaswin...@12wiki.eu wrote: The part I am talking about is the part where they say that they want to talk to the Wikimedia Fundation to have a discussion about making low-resolution images of

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread Sage Ross
A Wikipedia Signpost article intended to recount the facts and context of the legal threat is in progress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-13/Copyright_threat Comments, suggestions, and contributions are welcome. In particular, there is some discussion on the

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/7/11 Sue Gardner susanpgard...@gmail.com: Point of clarification -- the Wikimedia Foundation sends out press releases to international media, not just US media.  We have no plans to send out a press release on this issue. Of course, what I meant was that only the WMF sends press

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/7/11 John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no: Local chapters can say something about whats going on, they can't make claims on behalf of others, but they can interpret written statements like any other blogger or news outlet. Just remember that wmf sends press releases on behalf of wmf, nobody

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread Sue Gardner
Sure. Actually the New York chapter probably sends some press releases to US media too; I'm not sure. --Original Message-- From: Thomas Dalton To: susanpgard...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: Jul 11, 2009 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread Sue Gardner
Point of clarification -- the Wikimedia Foundation sends out press releases to international media, not just US media. We have no plans to send out a press release on this issue. Thanks, Sue --Original Message-- From: Thomas Dalton Sender: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org To:

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread John at Darkstar
Where the Norwegian chapter can be helpful is in letting us know how such a thing might play out if we were concerned with pictures from Norway's national gallery. Ec I guess you are speaking about GalleriNOR, which is a joint effort between Nasjonalbiblioteket and Norsk Folkemuseum. Sorry

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/11 John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no: In the case of GalleriNOR several people uploaded images from the site without prior agreement with neither NB nor NF. After a while I get in touch with them and asked how we should handle the case, what people believed was the right thing to do from

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread Yann Forget
David Gerard wrote: 2009/7/11 John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no: In the case of GalleriNOR several people uploaded images from the site without prior agreement with neither NB nor NF. After a while I get in touch with them and asked how we should handle the case, what people believed was the

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] For clarity sake I should point out that the neither the complaint to Wikimedia, nor the response to the OTRS reply, included any offer of compromise. Also worth mentioning is that a copyright complaint by the NPG