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[News] National Portrait Gallery All Proprietary

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National Portrait Gallery: Nuts

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| So you should be *encouraging* people to upload your pix to places like 
| Wikipedia; you should be thanking them. The fact that you are threatening 
| them with legal action shows that you don't have even an inkling of what you 
| are employed to do.   
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/national-portrait-gallery-nuts.html

National Portrait Gallery Threatens Wikimedia Developer For Downloading Public
Domain Images

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| Derrick Coetzee, a software developer and an administrator of Wikimedia 
| Commons, the media repository for Wikipedia is being threatened by the 
| National Portrait Gallery in London. Coetzee admits that he downloaded about 
| 3,000 high-resolution images from the site, but notes that they are all of 
| paintings that are in the public domain (nearly all are over 100 years old). 
| Coetzee is in the US, where he notes Bridgeman v. Corel suggests that 
| photographs of public domain paintings do not carry any copyright, since the 
| photograph does not add any new expression. However, such issues are not 
| settled in the UK, and the National Portrait Gallery is insisting that the 
| photos are covered by copyright.          
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090713/0203135526.shtml


Recent:

Photographer moves to intervene in Fairey v. Associated Press fair use
litigation

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| In Fairey v. Associated Press, the fair use litigation in which Associated
| Press accuses artist Shepard Fairey of copyright infringement in connection
| with a painting he did based upon a portion of a photograph which appeared in
| the AP, the actual photographer -- Manuel Garcia -- has now moved to
| intervene in the action, claiming that he -- and not the Associated Press --
| is the owner of the copyright in the photograph.
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http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009/07/photographer-moves-to-intervene-in.html


Shepard Fairey Case Gets More Complex: Mannie Garcia Claims The Photo Is His,
Not The AP's

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| The Shepard Fairey case continues to get more and more bizarre. You may
| recall that, back in January, someone figured out which photo Shepard Fairey
| had used as the basis of his iconic Barack Obama poster.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090710/0159495506.shtml


MPAA Matches RIAA In Massive Layoffs

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| I missed this one when it initially happened, but it looks like the MPAA is
| following in the footsteps of the RIAA -- who recently laid off a bunch of
| folks. Apparently the MPAA quickly followed suit and drastically scaled back
| after the studios cut the MPAA's funding by about 15 to 20%.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090312/0323464087.shtml
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