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National Portrait Gallery Threatens to sue Wikipedia over Images

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The National Portrait Gallery has threatened legal proceedings for breach of copyright against a man who downloaded thousands of high-resolution images from its website, and placed them in an archive of free-to-use images on Wikipedia.

There has been no formal response from the internet encyclopedia but Derrick Coetzee, who downloaded the images, promptly uploaded the letter from the London lawyers Farrar and Co, “to enable public discourse on the issue”. He said he was taking legal advice , read more here Via (The Guardian)

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