[meteorite-list] meteorite images..

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:29:21 -0800
Message-ID: <4B102891.7050008_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Hi Ben, Svend, Mark, List,

Svend make a good point, which I failed to mention last night because I
was answering Mark's question of ownership rights more than actual
repositories of meteorite images. There are many very good meteorite
photographs online of thousands of meteorites. The links that Svend
provided are great examples. However this enforces my point that certain
rights need to be maintained by the copyright owner, and images do not
need to be released into the public domain to share them with everyone.

The Wiki Commons' meteorite photo collection is a great start! Most are
licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported" license
and requires attribution to the author.

There are gallery software programs I can install on the Meteorite Wiki
to provide a source for meteorite images. This will be a user
contributed gallery and all images uploaded to the gallery could be
licensed under the same Creative Commons Attribution license that would
provide credit to all authors.

In fact I would not mind even providing a "Contributors Page" on the
Meteorite Wiki as a thank you to all contributors. A page that would
allow all contributing authors whether they have contributed photos,
video, articles or papers to list their name and/or organization,
university, or community college, a brief summary description, and a
link to their organizations site if they have one.

Any ideas or thoughts?

And for those who've yet to vote in the poll, we need your vote!
www.meteoriteblog.com (poll is located in top right sidebar) Your vote
will be used to determine the direction the Meteorite Wiki will take.

Your vote helps!

Regards,
Eric




benjamin de la vega wrote:
> I think we all have some photos we could donate, just put your name on
> the lower right corner (ie) Ben de la Vega Collection and so on.
> That's how we race jouralists do it for public domain pictures.
>
> Ben
>
> --- On *Fri, 11/27/09, Meteorites USA /<eric at meteoritesusa.com>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite images..
> To: "Mark Ford" <mark.ford at ssl.gb.com>
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 3:03 AM
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> This is NOT legal advice...
>
> You're referring to what is called the "public domain". The GNU
> license is specifically for software and documentation and usually
> not applied to other intellectual property such as photos though I
> suppose you could. Photos are intellectual property and are
> automatically protected under US Copyright Law
> http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ as is any other intellectual
> property or "work" created by an author within the US or by an
> American citizen. Other countries have their own laws that govern
> copyright. This is the long answer to your question, but relevant...
>
> Royalty free is not free... You must pay for the use of the work.
> This means you pay a place like Corbis, istockphoto, or Getty
> Images for the use of a photo. They own the rights to the images
> and you do not have to pay an artist a royalty from any profits
> you make from your use of the images. This is the meaning behind
> the phrase "royalty free". It's basically a flat rate image rental
> service.
>
> You're asking for creators, authors and artists to donate their
> work to the public domain. Your term "completely free use" means
> "Public Domain" and the author would retain no rights to the work
> whatsoever. Most people are not this generous with there creations
> because their creations are usually worth money and it would not
> make practical business sense to give away money for free. However
> many people do release a lot of their work into the public domain,
> and don't mind dedicating their work to the public domain.
>
> There are many other licenses available to protect a work, besides
> the GNU, and the GNU Free Documentation license. A few years back
> the Creative Commons was created. They have 6 licenses available
> and they cover most every type of sharing of intellectual property
> rights covering just about any kind of work from Songs, Movies,
> Books, Photos, Software etc... You can view their licenses here:
> http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses
>
> So, it's up to you.. If you have a lot of meteorite images you'd
> like to donate then by all means got for it. I have a few hundred
> I could probably donate, or release into the public domain as
> well. I'd be willing to make a large portion of images of the
> meteorites I've photographed available in an online gallery on the
> Meteorite Wiki website, or even on Meteorites USA.
>
> In fact, I'll probably do that... Anyone that would like to donate
> images to this gallery contact me, I'd be happy to host them on
> the site and provide the server space and bandwidth for the gallery.
>
> What a great idea! Thanks Mark!
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Mark Ford wrote:
> > Talking of websites:
> >
> > I've always thought a library of royalty free (that is
> completely free
> > use) meteorite images would be good, often when giving a talk or
> writing
> > an article I often find I just cannot find decent photos that
> are truly
> > 'free to use', you usually end up taking a pic yourself, or if
> it's for
> > a lecture just 'borrowing' the image of the net. Wouldn't it be
> great if
> > there was a legit way of using meteorite images anywhere without
> anyone
> > suing or complaining?
> >
> > So those of you that have websites with nice images on them, if
> any of
> > you don't mind anyone else using some/all your pics for any
> purpose, why
> > don't we come up with a special logo or wording phrase that can
> go on
> > your website that means 'my images are free for use'. I know
> there are
> > GNU, and other free use standards out there, but many state free for
> > non-commercial use with 3 page conditions etc, I'm talking about
> > condtion free images.
> >
> > Just a thought, but whilst many images are commercially valuable
> which
> > is fine, some must surley come under the category ' I don't care who
> > uses them' so why not make them publically available by stating
> so, when
> > they are put online?.
> >
> > Just a thought..
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Would Volunteer To Help: Time (32%, 7 Votes)
> > Would Volunteer: PR & Advertising (32%, 7 Votes)
> > Orgainzational Participation (27%, 6 Votes)
> > More Public Awareness (27%, 6 Votes)
> > More User Participation: i.e. Forums Personal Messaging (18%, 4
> Votes)
> > More Meteorite Videos (18%, 4 Votes)
> > Would Volunteer To Help: Monetary Contributions (14%, 3 Votes)
> > Less Public Awareness (5%, 1 Votes)
> > More Commercial & Less Informational (0%, 0 Votes)
> > ---------------------------------------------
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