On 6/9/05, Manon Ress <manon.ress[_at_]cptech.org> wrote:
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> Here is the response from my UK friend:
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> All that said, they will incur a lot of management time negotiating with
> the NPG and they do not have a positive case to advance. Maybe they
> should pay up...
The advice in the last sentence is very bad. It will set up a bad precedent for any subsequent people who want to reproduce the artworks that are in the public domain. Better to say "Get lost" to National Portrait Gallery than to bow and kiss their big toe.
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,952
Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Fri Jun 10 2005 - 20:25:00 GMT
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