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: The Art Law Blog

"Wikipedia painting row escalates"

By Intellectual Property Law, Esq.

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That's the BBC News headline on the story mentioned last week here.

The deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation (which runs Wikipedia) says: "It is hard to see a plausible argument that excluding public domain content from a free, non-profit encyclopaedia serves any public interest whatsoever."

But the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies nicely lays out the counterargument: If museums like the National Portrait Gallery can't have their photographs protected, and "anyone [is therefore] able to use them for free, they will cease to invest in the digitisation of works, and everyone will be the poorer."

Full post as published by The Art Law Blog on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).

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