That's the BBC News headline on the story mentioned last week here.
The deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation (which runs Wikipedia) says: "It is hard to see a plausible argument that excluding public domain content from a free, non-profit encyclopaedia serves any public interest whatsoever."
But the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies nicely lays out the counterargument: If museums like the National Portrait Gallery can't have their photographs protected, and "anyone [is therefore] able to use them for free, they will cease to invest in the digitisation of works, and everyone will be the poorer."
UPDATE: The Art Market Monitor says it's "a compelling case of self-interest presented as public interest."
