> What is ARTstor's fear in making images, of a defined low-resolution,
available to anyone who can get Net access?
Speaking for my institution--I think we wouldn't be afraid of making
screen-quality images widely available if we had a cheap, easy,
impractically-defeatable system for watermarking images in such a way that
average web-browsing people could easily read that watermark (so they knew
the images were ours, and could find a link back to our web site, for example).
I probably know very little about watermarking, except that we could pay
Digimarc a lot of money for the privilege, and then only people who
happened to view our images in Photoshop or some other professional
software package would see the watermark. If they happened to be the web
designers who were borrowing our images for re-display, they might be
polite and provide descriptive text for their web visitors to read. But it
would work better if the web browsing software was able to read the
watermark and, without the intervention of the web designer, provide the
watermark info to viewers of the image in some easy and familiar
way. Also, I'd rather do it with a 3rd-party-signed certificate, and not
have to involve Digimarc (and pay a fee based on quantity).
Is this possible? I don't think there is a standard for this, or if one is
in the works, or if some other initiative for something similar exists.
Thanks,
Matt
At 11:01 PM 2/5/2003 +0000, you wrote:
At 16:37 05/02/03 -0500, David Green wrote:
materials will only be made available for use by not-for-profit
educational institutions,
It is perhaps invidious to carp about any initiative which seeks to
offer wider access to images but .... mention of not-for-profit
educational institutions raises a wry smile on this side of the
Atlantic when some North American 'not-for-profits' have budgets
equivalent to the GDPs of some developing countries.
Are universities really the best guardians of intellectual
property? If we want to expand our audience as museums
do we hand the control of access to cultural elites? What is
ARTstor's fear in making images, of a defined low-resolution,
available to anyone who can get Net access? Surely the
question is not one of access but of re-use. The model of
the Soviet film train bringing movies to distant villages
appeals with cells of museum workers ready to destroy
the presses of anyone pinching an image for a calendar.
Ah well, back to the barricades
Douglas
The Highland Clearances
http://www.theclearances.org
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