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Why Is The UK's Intellectual Property Office Praising National Portrait Gallery's Copyfraud Claims Over Public Domain Images?
Type: Online Resource
Author
Mike Masnick
Description
This article reacts to the National Portrait Gallery's practice of licensing reproductions of public domain works, which is put forward in a blog post on the UK Intellectual Property Office's blog as a crucial service.
Date
2016 July 15
Commentary
Though the blog post was written by a third party, its content contradicts the position taken in the IPO's 'Copyright Notice: digital images, photographs and the internet' (24 June 2014, updated 26 November 2015).
Publisher
TechDirt
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Language
ENG
Copyright Information
In Copyright
Rights and Reuse
All Rights Reserved
Cortex Citation:
Mike Masnick, “Why Is The UK's Intellectual Property Office Praising National Portrait Gallery's Copyfraud Claims Over Public Domain Images?,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/tools-resources/why-is-the-uks-intellectual-property-office-praising-national-portrait-gallerys-copyfraud-claims-over-public-domain-images.
Mike Masnick, “Why Is The UK's Intellectual Property Office Praising National Portrait Gallery's Copyfraud Claims Over Public Domain Images?,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/tools-resources/why-is-the-uks-intellectual-property-office-praising-national-portrait-gallerys-copyfraud-claims-over-public-domain-images.