On 5/12/2010 12:29 PM, Zuzana Kraemerova wrote:
Fran, I think you're a bit exaggerating. I have no problems buying the book if that's your concern. I just didn't know in which book the pattern is. None the less, it's in more books I guess (I heard in some Ospreys)...so hard to say who is the original author of the graphic. It is more than probable that I soon go and buy the book. I have many costume books at home and I have no trouble paying for quality, your books are in my library too. I don't know what's the big deal in copying one single page. I often want to see a couple of pages of the book before I decide to buy it. Many students wouldn't be able to study if they hadn't milions of copies of books and excerpts etc. For example when you learn singing, you always get the sheet music copied. Only when you sing on a concert, you have to own the original sheet music.
It is not someone else's prerogative to give away a copyright holder's work without their permission on the grounds that it may sell something. And, if someone can't afford a book or excerpt, that does not mean they have a right to it.
To cut short the usual circular defenses of the world's "right" to get for free the hard work and investments of authors, publishers, editors, graphic artists, illustrators, translators, and all others who want copyrighted work for free, I've taken to just emailing the author or publisher, explaining their work is being offered for free, asking if they gave permission and giving them the emails of the people involved. Which I just did.
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