Roger Rassche wrote: >I think this has been blown hugely out of > proportion by the small number of pros who are still mad because they > can't make a living shooting trains, and want to drag the rest of us > down.
Well, any time I've subscribed to a list like this, EVERY issue seems to get blown hugely out of proportion simply because there are so many folks out there who want to put their two cents in. Somehow the stuff that people type comes off "sounding" more worked up than it would coming about in a normal real conversation, simply because we sometimes interpolate the tones and inflections in our minds into someone else's text. But, that's another discussion altogether on the philosophy of realness.... > Intellectual property is still a very grey area, both ethically > and legally, as anyone who has changed jobs within an industry lately > can tell you. Especially in cyberspace, where by conventional wisdom most laws as now written don't apply, even if the principles, as in this case, do. >>From my limited time on his site, he looks to be trying to > collect a lot of images in one place so someone doesn't have to crawl > around 50 web sites looking for a photo. Yeah - although he seems rather indiscriminate. (And that's another thing about the Internet - nobody's editing the damn thing...) Most of the randomly selected images which I saw looked like a load of hooey. Only a small percentage were of any interest. Some of the European stuff was cool. Didn't see any of the type shots you would see on SPORRS. I guess that makes it hard to get worked up about him stealing images. He really comes off in tone and content like a little kid saying "hey, look at all the pitchers I cut out of de magazines = I got almost 10,000s! Ain't they cool?" and we're all here saying "uh, yeah. Real neat kid. Did you ask anyone if you could do that?" and we're thinking "poor kid - that stuff looks like hell..." Well, I hate that he is lifting this stuff. I also hated his response to Dave even more. Don't need to see him on this list - that's taken care of. Everyone who wants to should sign into his guest book and let him know his methods are not appreciated and that he should ask permission. Then, we let him go back to his room and play with his little toys. He is but an insignificant speck on an insignificant speck in the whole vast immensity of the Chaos of the electronic universe. Patrick Lenahan Dallas, Texas -> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs
