Public domain or copyright?
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The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is threatening legal action after 3,300 images from its website were uploaded to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
A contributor to the popular site, Derrick Coetzee, breached English copyright laws by posting images from the gallery’s collection, the NPG said.
But photographs of works of art are not protected by copyright in the US, where Mr Coetzee and Wikipedia are based.” Read more : BBC | Gallery in Wikipedia legal threat
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