2009/1/16 <wjhon...@aol.com>: > "Point to" versus "take". Two separate things. > I'm not disputing the right to link to an image on bible.org. I'm disputing > the right to take that image and post it to flicker.com > > And "what if there is no museum image" only means that we are in the same > position as "what if we have no free image of Britney Spears eating a hot dog > for our hot dog page??". I.E. we're not worse off than we've been for five > thousand years. > > The mere fact that an image now exists, doesn't mean we get the right to do > whatever we want with it.
Under common law we have the right to do anything that is not illegal. > And the mere fact that no image exists, doesn't mean we get the right to do > whatever it takes to get one. We have the right to anything legal to get one. > We still are ethically bound to follow standard protocol, and not rock the > image boat. Not under any of the commonly held systems of ethics within liberal democracies. > If we adhere to the idea that any scan of a PD item is a voluntary act to > freely distribute such scan to the world for any purpose than the end result > is > that the massive scanners will simply stop scanning and we won't have > anything free, limited, for pay, or what. We will deal with that if it happens. For various reasons I strongly suspect it won't. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
