Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-09-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Scott, the director of rights and reproductions a the NPG kindly wrote directly back to me very quickly and said (quoting with permission): We did, indeed, investigate immediately. I am expecting changes to be made,

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-16 Thread Scott MacDonald
-Original Message- From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liam Wyatt Sent: 16 June 2011 05:36 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright Follow up on this thread

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-16 Thread David Gerard
On 16 June 2011 09:06, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: Well, they appear to have re-written their blurb to make it far enough away from Wikipedia text to keep them safe. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07767/john-michael-wright What an effort, just to

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-16 Thread Scott MacDonald
-Original Message- From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: 16 June 2011 09:13 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright On 16 June 2011

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-16 Thread Andrew Gray
On 16 June 2011 11:03, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: The only other one I had noted was http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp01315/william-dobson This does seem to have been sorted. But I recall people saying there were others at the time, but I don't have

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-15 Thread Liam Wyatt
Follow up on this thread from last week: NPG have pushed through changes to their content and it is now on their live site. Please advise if there are any further issues. -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Scott MacDonald
-Original Message- From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liam Wyatt Sent: 13 June 2011 06:20 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright Hi Scott

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA. Kind regards Ziko Thanks. I mean all they need to add is text taken from Wikipedia - it shouldn't be too hard. Scott ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 June 2011 09:23, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks. I mean all they need to add is text taken from Wikipedia - it shouldn't be too hard. Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA. *Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this,

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Scott MacDonald
Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA. *Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this, they're leaving themselves wide open to copyright suits from all the hundreds of thousands of smart, motivated geeks who HIT THE GODDAMN ROOF when they sent that

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 June 2011 10:34, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I would rather see this as an opportunity for friendly dialogue to help improve our working relationship. Absolutely, a non-apocalyptic response is desirable. However, they're still being blitheringly stupid and obnoxious, and

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 13 June 2011 09:47, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA. *Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this, they're leaving themselves wide open to copyright suits from all the hundreds of thousands of

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Liam Wyatt
Scott, the director of rights and reproductions a the NPG kindly wrote directly back to me very quickly and said (quoting with permission): We did, indeed, investigate immediately. I am expecting changes to be made, shortly. So, I assume that not only will changes be made to their website soon

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Scott MacDonald
-Original Message- From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liam Wyatt Sent: 14 June 2011 02:53 Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright Scott

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread geni
On 13 June 2011 09:29, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: *Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this, they're leaving themselves wide open to copyright suits from all the hundreds of thousands of smart, motivated geeks who HIT THE GODDAMN ROOF when they sent that legal

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Fae
Nicely done Liam, thanks. Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags On 14 June 2011 02:53, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Scott, the director of rights and reproductions a the NPG kindly wrote directly back to me very quickly and said

[Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-12 Thread Scott MacDonald
Back in March this year, I pointed out in Wikien-1 that the UKs National Portrait Gallery, was reusing Wikipedia content (and in particular my work) without any attribution (and indeed was claiming copyright). http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2011-March/108731.html This got some

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-12 Thread Liam Wyatt
Hi Scott, It was raised with the NPG, as promised, at the time. They assured me they would investigate immediately on the pages indicated as well as make a random sampling of other pages on their site to see if it had happened elsewhere. I'll re-raise this with them today and get back to you when