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National Portait Gallery and everlasting copyrights

Posted by Graeme in Economics,Media at 4:44 am on Wednesday, 22 July 2009

I had not intended to blog about the National Portrait Gallery threatening to sue Wikipedia over the latter’s publication of copies of paintings in the gallery, as I thought it would be obvious to anyone that this is a blatant attempt to use physical possession of a work to get around the expirations of copyrights. Tactics like this can effectively extend copyright indefinitely. (more…)

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