“In July 2009, lawyers representing the National Portrait Gallery of London (NPG) sent a demand letter threatening possible legal action for alleged copyright infringement, to an editor-user of the free content multimedia repository Wikimedia Commons, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The letter claims that Wikipedia editor Derrick Coetzee obtained more than 3,000 high-resolution images from the British National Portrait Gallery in March 2009 and posted them on Wikimedia Commons.[1][2][3]”
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