Saturday, 18 July 2009

BBC NEWS | Technology | Wikipedia painting row escalates

BBC NEWS | Technology | Wikipedia painting row escalates

The battle over Wikipedia's use of images from a British art gallery's website has intensified.

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.

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