Re: [Commons-l] UK rights - headsup

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Peel
I don't understand this - why would this have any effect on PD works? It only affects those that are in copyright but the author is not known, surely? Mike On 19 Mar 2010, at 01:32, Gnangarra wrote: What we could have is images that were once PD becoming copyright violations, minor

Re: [Commons-l] not Djakota, IIP :-)

2010-03-19 Thread Platonides
Daniel Schwen wrote: I seriously doubt that it causes _noticeable_ lack of fidelity. I think it should work with only one conversion step in any case, as the TIF contains jpg tiles. In theory it should even work without any conversions as it should be possible to tile the raw jpg block data. I

Re: [Commons-l] not Djakota, IIP :-)

2010-03-19 Thread Daniel Schwen
In fact JPEG has the image split in blocks, which are compressed separatedly. It should be possible to extract them. That is exactly what I was referring to :-) If there's it should show a page saying Please wait while we process the image with a timer. I know, I'm working on that right now.