Interesting dustup. A Wikipedia person went in a backdoor on the NPG site and
scraped fullsize images and posted them on Wikipedia as public domain. NPG
brought
in the lawyers to argue that in Britain the 2-D non-copyrightable precedent
hasn't been argued.
Excellent sleuthing! You're right. The Bridgeman-Corel decision that
went against Bridgeman was never appealed for fear that the appeal
would also go against Bridgeman and result in a much wider application
of the case law even in the US beyond the district in which the case
was brought.
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:58 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] NPG and Wikipedia (IP, website security)
Excellent sleuthing! You're right. The Bridgeman-Corel decision that
went against Bridgeman was never appealed for fear that the appeal
would also go against
