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
UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia user over public domain images
Museums, archives, and cultural institutions have been forced to re-examine their relationship with the digital presentation of public domain works in their collections. This has brought the issue of “copyfraud” to the forefront. Recently, the UK’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) threatened legal action under UK law against a Wikipedia user for, among other things, copyright … Read more
