[pure-silver] Re: archives
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:47:52 +0200
I'll maintain that this is all a bunch of amateur-lawyer gobbledygook, based
on an artificially paranoia, created by an exaggerating legal community to
intentionally scare the dickens out of us, forcing us to hand over our
money, so they can send their kids to even more expensive colleges, so they
continue to do even more damage to our kids and their society, ending up
with everyone being afraid to leave the house or talk to anyone about
anything, including the web.
I've never gone to a barber without being told to be needing a hair-cut.
I've never gone to the doctor without being told to be needing medication.
I've never gone to a lawyer without being told to be needing a contract.
Forget all of that, and let's get the CD out to everyone who wants it, since
they could get it off the internet anyway. If someone puts it together, I
will distribute it at cost without making any profit. If they want to sue me
for it, let them, but they won't, because there is no law violation in doing
so, and I have no property to speak off anyway. The former makes it legal,
and the latter will kill any lawyer's interest in a hurry.
After that, let's get back to photography, please.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 9/10/04 11:12 PM, "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: archives
> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:44:54 +0200
>
>> This is a purely hypothetical discussion anyway.
>
> Not really. If this were an empty issue, then there would be lots of
> pure-silver CD-ROM's openly distributed by now. I don't think this is
> much different from the need for model release form, property release
> form, prints delivery form to galleries, license of rights for stock
> images, etc. Even when I shoot my friend for favor, I always ask for a
> release and give them pretty much unlimited license for use of their
> images right away. They may need this when they print their images
> immediately or some time in the future. In my view, archiving a
> mailing list is not much different.
>
> Copyright related issues and licensing are a part of daily life of
> artists among others, so there are many resources online and in
> books/newsletters/magazines. There are many canned license forms that
> you can use with minimal editing for most routine work. Only in those
> unusual circumstances you might want to draft something and have
> lawyers review it, but those resources tell you what kinds of things
> are important to include.
>
> I do typographic work, making posters, and other printing related
> stuff for my projects from time to time. If I try to print a poster
> with a decent printing company, they need to know in writing we have
> proper licensing of rights with the original artists. This sort of
> things are very common in many aspects of creative activities, and I
> understand some of them are necessary mechanisms to protect original
> work.
>
> But there are other negative aspects of copyright, which I should save
> for some other time.
>
> --
> Ryuji Suzuki
> "Keep a good head and always carry a light camera."
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