Wikipedia painting row escalates… according to the BBC
BBC online says: ‘The online encyclopaedia has accused the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of betraying its public service mission. But the gallery has said it needs to recoup the £1m cost of its digitisation programme and claims Wikipedia has misrepresented its position. The NPG is threatening legal action after 3,300 images from its website were … Read more
Steal This Film? The IP debate rages…
A lively panel on IP at ACE’s Do the Arts Speak Digital? event this week. It did feel like Jamie King from VoDo was going to give the lawyer panellist/ACE a good kicking at some points! A passionate view on making art available to share for free using the Steal This Film/Pirate Bay case study. … Read more
