Further developments in copyright dispute
Last week news broke of the legal threat sent to Wikimedian Derrick Coetzee (see Signpost and Wikinews coverage). The National Portrait Gallery in London alleges that Coetzee infringed on the gallery's copyrights by uploading to Wikimedia Commons over 3000 relatively high-resolution images of public domain portraits; the NPG, like many UK cultural institutions, claims copyright on photographic reproductions of public domain works.
Since the initial Signpost coverage, the Wikimedia Foundation has responded with a post on the Wikimedia blog, Coetzee has announced that he is being represented by a lawyer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the story has seen a wide variety of discussion in the mainstream media and among bloggers and others.