On Sep 4, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Bob W wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Larry Colen > >> I don't like the restrictions, I don't agree with them, but I >> understand why they have them. I find it interesting that several of >> the people in this discussion are arguing their point and have never >> been to burning man, any of the burner community events, > > whether people have been there or not is completely irrelevant.
Unless it's important to understand what you're talking about. > >> or quite >> likely even read the rules in question. Then again, I doubt that >> ignorance of a subject does much to deter any member of this list from >> pontificating at great length on it. >> > > Gee, Larry, if people don't agree with you they're ponitificating at great > length are they? Nope. If people don't agree with me, they're wrong. > >> I've seen this wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth a couple of >> times, tried to find the specific restrictions, and couldn't. I asked >> my friend who borrowed my van to go to burning man if he saw them, and >> he said he didn't see anything different than previous years. So, >> before you protest too vehemently that the rules this year are so much >> unreasonably stricter than last year, perhaps someone could point out >> the specific language that they object to. >> > > there's a link to an excerpt from the BM blog them in the first post on this > subject: > <http://blog.burningman.com/2011/01/digital-rights/updated-terms-and-conditi > ons-for-2011/> Yup, they're saying you can take pictures for your own personal use, you can share them on a personal website, but you can't sell them without permissions of BMLLC. They are also saying that you can't sell nude pictures of a sexual nature (no Burning man Porn) > >>> If someone wants to behave in a way that they don't want publicised, >> they >>> should do it in private, not in public >> >> What makes you think that burning man is public? It's a very, very >> large private party. > > it's held on publicly-owned land and tickets are sold to the public. If they > want it to be private they should hold it on private land and have people > there by invitation only. I like that people can use public lands for private events. If I want to have a party at the beach, public land, I like that it can still be a private party. And, it is not entirely public, there are people who are banned from burning man. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
