On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen<[email protected]> wrote: > Carcharoth wrote: >> >> Remember that the number of (highly skilled) staff required to >> operate that sort of process may not show up on the NPG payroll, as >> they may contract that sort of work out to others. >> > Granted without a question. But that just begs the question. > If they are claiming a "creative act" in producing the image, > and not being satisfied in acknowledging they are just copying > it, is it not really even "best practices" for them to acknowledge > the authorship to the person doing the creativity? Personally I > think aggressive approaches by them for some purported > creative function they have provided, when not even supplying > the name who might have standing to declare their creative > contribution was being impinged upon, is frankly ludicrous! > >> And my guess is that the photographer or scanners or other people paid >> to do this were doing nothing more nor less than as professional a job >> as they could do, to earn the money they were contracted to be paid. >> Not everyone has noble thoughts about free culture and freeing public >> domain material, running through their minds all the time. >> > Just being professional doesn't mean you aren't being creative. > I want to be very clear about that. But even if you are being > very inventive in the solutions you employ in producing a good > and professional _result_; the result would in most cases aim > to be "faithful" to the original image, and not to impart some > "creative spark" from the forehead of the photographer themselves, > which would forever mark the image as the work of that and no > other fungible photographer, I rather suspect.
Agreed. Ironically, if the NPG *had* done photographs of the portraits in their gallery settings, including the 3D frames and with lighting and angle considerations, and there had been a developed 'style' of how to frame the photographs of the pictures, that would be a greyer area than faithful archival quality scans. I think. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
