http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2029367/fate-uncertain-millions-sygmas-images
Early reports of destruction may have been too bold. But the motivation was the potential for crippling lawsuits by the photographers under French law -- one of whom won ~$2M from Sygma when Sygma could not produce 750 of his images. I fully support the idea of helping archives in distress, but it's not clear what is needed in this case, or if help from us would be valuable. (an archive that specializes in digitization might be more relevant; and a project like the Internet Archive that hosts and shares orphaned works.) SJ > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/02/sygma-collection-needs-refuge.html >>> From: Gnangarra <[email protected]> >>> >>> http://blog.melchersystem.com/2011/02/25/the-fire-this-time/ >>> >>> 12 Million Photographs are to be destroyed because liquidators cant >>> find a buyer? >>> >>> these arent just random landscape photos, these are photos are from >>> the fench news agency Sygma >>> >>> Wikimedia-france, Jimbo, any chance they could find their way to >>> Commons rather than just being destroyed and lost for ever....... >>> >>> -- >>> GN. >>> Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com >>> Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Commons-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Internal-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Internal-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Internal-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l > > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
