Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Parker Higgins
Even if the buyer loses the attribution information, I'd bet that, under the first sale doctrine, they can resell the poster. (Just not copy and redistribute.) Right? On Feb 4, 2009 8:24 AM, "Chad" wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 a... Agreed. I

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Andre Engels wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Huib Laurens wrote: >> I don't really think that would be enough.. I am not sure but the >> poster and the license need to stay together.. If the attribution is >> on a paper with the poster the license and author can get lost... > > There is

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Chad
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Huib Laurens wrote: > > I don't really think that would be enough.. I am not sure but the > > poster and the license need to stay together.. If the attribution is > > on a paper with the poster the license and

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Huib Laurens wrote: > I don't really think that would be enough.. I am not sure but the > poster and the license need to stay together.. If the attribution is > on a paper with the poster the license and author can get lost... There is nothing that says that the l

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Huib Laurens
I don't really think that would be enough.. I am not sure but the poster and the license need to stay together.. If the attribution is on a paper with the poster the license and author can get lost... Isn't it the same when a photo will be used in a newspaper but the attribution will be send on a

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Sam Johnston wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:43 PM, geni wrote: >> > 2009/2/3 Gerard Meijssen : >> >> Hoi, >> >> The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between >> cheap >>

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is a better mouse trap then the GFDL. Thanks, GerardM 2009/2/4 Andre Engels > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen > wrote: > > Hoi, > > The Zwijntje picture is actually one that is rather special. I use it as > an > > avatar on many of my profiles. When people abuse t

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Huib Laurens
I have a bit of another view on this attribution stuff.. There are people doing great work to get permission to use pictures.. We tell the people that the name from the photographer will stay with the image because the license says so.. Most of the time the people say just no. When Wikimedia has

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > The Zwijntje picture is actually one that is rather special. I use it as an > avatar on many of my profiles. When people abuse this picture, it may hurt > me. There is another aspect as well, I am not arguing about attribution to > t

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The Zwijntje picture is actually one that is rather special. I use it as an avatar on many of my profiles. When people abuse this picture, it may hurt me. There is another aspect as well, I am not arguing about attribution to the nth degree of foolishness. It is also very unlikely that I will

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Jesse Plamondon-Willard
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > When you do not like the notion that in real life people want a clean > print, you will find that your legalistic approach hardly survives the real > world. There are people who like their jeans with labels. I remove them if I > can. In a way you take the position of the

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Ray Saintonge
Sam Johnston wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > >> Hoi, >> The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap >> and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is >> two prints and that IS expensive. My point has

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread geni
2009/2/3 Sam Johnston : > I'm not aware of any print-on-demand providers who facilitate the > sending of arbitrary documentation with prints so my ability to reuse > is still unnecessarily restricted. > > Sam That must make it rather hard to use the postal service. -- geni ___

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Sam Johnston wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:43 PM, geni wrote: > > 2009/2/3 Gerard Meijssen : > >> Hoi, > >> The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between > cheap > >> and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on th

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Peel
On 3 Feb 2009, at 21:59, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Your wish for attribution comes at a monetory cost so the > difference is > negligible. They want their reward for the creation for IP and so > do you. > Thanks, >GerardmM Huh? Where am I asking for money? Depending on the meth

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Your wish for attribution comes at a monetory cost so the difference is negligible. They want their reward for the creation for IP and so do you. Thanks, GerardmM 2009/2/3 Michael Peel > > On 3 Feb 2009, at 21:39, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > > Hoi, > > The change of the license will h

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Sam Johnston
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:43 PM, geni wrote: > 2009/2/3 Gerard Meijssen : >> Hoi, >> The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap >> and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is >> two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been an

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Peel
On 3 Feb 2009, at 21:39, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > The change of the license will happen not only for Wikipedia but > for all > projects as I understand things. The change of license can only apply to wiki-created GFDL works, which does not apply to the images. They will remain with th

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread geni
2009/2/3 Gerard Meijssen : > Hoi, > The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap > and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is > two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been and still is that it is > nice to come up with "soluti

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The change of the license will happen not only for Wikipedia but for all projects as I understand things. When you do not like the notion that in real life people want a clean print, you will find that your legalistic approach hardly survives the real world. There are people who like their j

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Peel
On 3 Feb 2009, at 21:01, Sam Johnston wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Gerard Meijssen > wrote: >> Hoi, >> The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance >> between cheap >> and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on >> the back is >> two prints a

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Sam Johnston
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap > and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is > two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been and still is that it is >

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been and still is that it is nice to come up with "solutions". They have to be practical in th

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Peel
On 2 Feb 2009, at 07:11, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >- When I TELL you that something spoils a picture for me, you > can ignore >this, or you accept this. When I have a framed picture I do not > want the >license printed with it, I do not want a list of authors. I want > a clean >

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Two answers and a PS, - first you do not have to actively discourage the narcissists from contributing. But playing to their egocentric notions of copyright, notions where the two licenses are largely the same is damaging to our objective. The information needs to spread out, by h

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
I Wrote: >>> I completely agree with your point, but I think you have grasped >>> the wrong end of the stick. It is precisely the pride people feel >>> about contributing and being acknowledged as contributing to >>> our great charitable work, that is laying the golden eggs. >>> Attribution is not

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Obviously I like it that my picture of a wild boar is used on a > Russian website. They asked, nice. But I take more pride in KNOWING > this than in having my name on their website. This point brings to mind my early days on

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, So you are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. There is the license and the uploader AND it may be PD. The cost of adding this is not calculated as there is no functionality (as far as I know) that does it. When I print at my copy shop, I get a prestine copy. Remeber these are typical

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Ray Saintonge
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > When I print a poster, and the license and the contributors have to be > printed on it as well, the image of the picture is spoiled for me. This > would be a reason for me to return the printed poster. So let us be > practical, WHERE do you want to have all the information

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I could not disagree more with you. People who work on Wikipedia do this because they make a difference. This making a difference is what I think is of paramount importance, what makes people proud of this endeavour. When people use my pictures and my ,it makes a difference how they use it. Bu

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I selected a great picture from Commons. I loaded it on my memory stick. I > went to a copy shop and had it printed in poster format for little money. No > fuss. I did not even need to bring it on a memory stick, I could have > downloaded the picture at the copy shop

[Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-01-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I selected a great picture from Commons. I loaded it on my memory stick. I went to a copy shop and had it printed in poster format for little money. No fuss. I did not even need to bring it on a memory stick, I could have downloaded the picture at the copy shop. This is the real world. There i