On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:19:21 -0800, in alt.culture.alaska,
floyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:
>bookburn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>>(Basically you are grossly in violation of copyright law
>>>as long as those two images remain on that web site.
>>>They may or may not choose to sue you over it, but my
>>>guess is that if they stay there you *will* get a legal
>>>notice.)
>>
>>Yes, I think you're right. Copies removed, if I can.
>
>I see that they are both gone, which is an excellent
>move on your part. It's an interesting experience too!
>
>Incidentally, if you do own images that you want to make
>available for common use, www.wikimedia.com is perhaps a
>reasonable way to do it. They don't resize or
>manipulate the image the many of the other photo sites
>do, but then again it is not intended to be a display
>gallery, just a repository. And there are some tricks
>to using it too...
>
>
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=Floyd+Davidson&ofs=0
>
>That URL will show the few images that I have licensed
>for virtually any use, under a Creative Commons License.
Nice work, Floyd.
>But look at the images sizes. The first image, of a
>snowy owl, is a 600x600 pixel image. Several are still
>relatively small though, but some are large, with one
>being 4288x2848 (12 MegaPixels).
>Why? Well, I don't mind if someone takes that 12 MP
>image and prints it at 20"x16", which would be about as
>large as would be reasonable for that image. So I
>provided a high pixel image to allow that to be done.
>
>On the other hand, the picture of the owl, at 600x600 is
>okay for display on a web page, but isn't suitable for
>printing at more than maybe 4"x4" at the most!
>
>The reason is simple: I sell 13"x19" custom prints of
>the owl picture, and will consider offers for limited
>printing rights on digital copies.
I loved the owl... and since I also carve wood would considered a
high resolution print.
I have a dozen of so pics I thought about releasing to Creative
Commons License also. Most all my work to date has been in film and
my recent step into digital SLR has been a learning experience.
Thanks for your articles in the digital photo groups you have been
helpful.
Digital micrographs are the best form of instant gratification I have
found to date. I am eager for winter and clear cold skies to play
with the telescope and digital camera.
I dealing with learning Gimp, and you've been helpful there.
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Ak'toh'di
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