On 20/07/2009, Durova <[email protected]> wrote: > Indirectly this helps our position with regard to NPG, because a significant > part of NPG's argument is that WMF is impossible to work with. Each time we > develop a cooperative relationship with another cultural institution we > prove that part of NPG's argument empirically wrong. The more this happens, > the more likely NPG is to look silly; the net effect could soften their > approach. Now is an excellent time to build those relationships because the > current situation is drawing attention to the media side of Wikipedia.
I think there is another side of this though; whether NPG are silly or not, the uploader ran an automated program to systematically rip their site of high resolution images. That's certainly pretty unfriendly; it's pretty clear that the NPG didn't want people to use their website's resources for that purpose. When you extract from a server an entire set of information that they don't want you to have that's essentially 'hacking', it's clear to me that in a pretty real sense the uploader hacked into their website. In other words, this isn't necessarily simply about copyright. > -Durova -- -Ian Woollard "All the world's a stage... but you'll grow out of it eventually." _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
