On Oct 15, 2006, at 3:30 PM, geni wrote:
On 10/15/06, W. Guy Finley
<wgfinley(a)dynascope.com> wrote:
Go to
apimages.com and you will see a few hundred
images we can't
produce.
I'm seeing maybe 1.
You must not have gone beyond the entry page then, go search their
holdings
They are timeless and unique just like the two
photos I
worked with them to get permissions on -- Raising the Flag on Iwo
Jima and Trang Bang.
however not permission for reuse.
Same thing with CORBIS, go to their website, type
in a name and start
watching all the photos that come up. Could we get some of these as
press publicity photos? Probably, asserting fair use. How about
having an agreement in place with CORBIS about our use of them so
there is never a question about the legitimacy of the use of an
image?
Again this brings up reuse issues.
We should never stop looking for the free sources
of images that we
can obtain. But there are a whole slew of historical photographs
owned by these media houses we do not have access to and that's what
I was getting at. I know, because I've deleted them before. The
press is everywhere and over decades has acquired scores of important
images, I'd like to use them, LEGALLY while protecting the rights of
their creators. A big pile of money would help us do that.
Problem is those are exactly the images they will not want to see
released under a free licence. I agree that targeting individual items
is the logical course
While purchase of large amounts of material might be nice I think we
could get better value by having a "fighting fund" which is used to
obtain images that cannot be obtained through any other means rather
than bulk buying which is likely to result in a lot of duplicating
material we can get in other ways.
The rest of this is an entire philosophical issue. Yes, it would be
best if everything we had was absolutely free content that we could
pass on to anyone else to use as they wish. If we stick to that as
our only criteria for using material then all fair-use material goes
out the window and all material used with permission goes out the
window. I believe having it with permission and restrictions on use
is better than not having it at all.
--Guy