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• 19 Jul 09
  

  Karen Richardson

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  Pazuzu HSP

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• 18 Jul 09
  

  suikachan0

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  Patrick O'Keefe
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  • • National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
    • The NPG is threatening legal action after 3,300 images from its website were uploaded to Wikipedia.
    • The high-resolution images were uploaded by Wikipedia volunteer Derrick Coetzee.
    • Erik Moeller, the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation
    • Another Wikipedia volunteer David Gerard has blogged about the row, claiming that the National Portrait Gallery makes only £10-15,000 a year from web licensing, less than it makes "selling food in the cafe".
    • It has worked for the last five years toward the target of getting half of its collection online by 2009. "We will be able to achieve this," said the gallery's statement, "as a result of self-generated income."
    • The gallery says that while it only makes a limited revenue from web licensing, it earns far more from the reproduction of its images in books and magazines - £339,000 in the last year.
    • But it says the present situation jeopardises its ability to fund its digitisation process from its own resources.
    • A spokeswoman also said that the two German archives mentioned in Erik Moeller's blog had in fact supplied medium resolution images to Wikipedia, and insisted that the National Portrait Gallery had been willing to offer similar material to Wikipedia.

    • The gallery also explained how Derrick Coetzee was able to obtain the high resolution files from its site. They were made available to visitors using a "Zoomify" feature, which works by allowing several high resolution files to be seen all together.

      It claims Mr Coetzee used special software to "de-scramble" the high-resolution tiles, allowing the whole portrait to be seen in high resolution.

    • "If owners of out of copyright material are not going to have the derivative works they have created protected, which will result in anyone being able to use then for free, they will cease to invest in the digitisation of works, and everyone will be the poorer," it wrote in an email to its members.
• 17 Jul 09
  

  Jonathan Bailey

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