Astrida: I must, unfortunately, agree with you. We haven't had time or funding
to put all of our existing objects on the web, much less hi-res ones for
detail. It is a sad commentary on what we would like to do for ourselves and
the public and what is possible. Additionally, there are some
In a message dated 11/12/2010 7:56:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
manordto...@stthomas.edu writes:
Additionally, there are some museums that are unwilling to put up details
and hi-res photos up because of copyright issues.
And I guess that suggests something else WE can do to help
And publishers cannot afford to support images for books either. The Swede are
developing a process for inexpensive publication photos. This might be helpful
there, at least.
On 11/12/10 7:08 AM, annbw...@aol.com annbw...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/12/2010 7:56:27 A.M. Eastern
On 11/12/2010 4:55 AM, Nordtorp-Madson, Michelle A. wrote
: Snip Additionally, there are some museums that are unwilling to put
up details and hi-res photos up because of copyright issues.
Ah the dread Copyright issue and who actually owns historic items,
particularly those in publicly funded
Copyright may turn out not to be the wave of the future. I hope there is
a better way found for all of us, Museums and private citizens.
I fail to see any other mechanism than copyright (the control over
replication and sale of the work) for creators and producers of works to
get paid for
Judge Chin is still pondering the
proposed Settlement, and it will probably be appealed for years whether
he accepts or rejects it--though I hope he does.
Reject it, I mean.
You need to realize that when someone scans your work (after you have
explicitly entered it a do not scan for your
