Digital BW, The Print

rcoda wrote:

> I am sorry that I opened a can of worms. Did not mean to. Started out
> as a discussion on what minimum dpi gives a decent print.
>
> I will take down the small prints from the kitchen and tear them up
> if that will make everyone happy.

That's not the point.. Please, enjoy the prints!  What we are saying, I 
hope, is that what happens in practice, and what the law actually 
legally allows, and what we as artists should endorse is often at odds.

I, as an example, know many artists that use bootleg software or music, 
just as many software ppl I know use bootleg music or imagery... It's 
one kind of hypocrisy that many engage in, I myself am guilty at times.. 
BUT, to publicly say people have a RIGHT to do so, is something 
different.. Were I with the Weston Estate I would tell you and your wife 
to enjoy the images... I'm not though, but yet, I hope they brighten 
your kitchen..  

As for my own imagery, I expect that anything I put on the web will end 
up somewhere, somehow, copied.  I can't prevent it and I won't lose 
sleep over it.  I don't want to see crappy reproductions of my images, 
but, if they make someone else happy, maybe the repro is good enough.. 
So, I am careful about what goes online..  I understand copyright law, 
but I also live in the real world.

  

>
> But would you put a real Weston in the kitchen? Where grease, smoke,
> water, heat, ... could easily destroy it? I know I wouldn't -

agreed!

> and
> I "own" (that means bought) two Westons. And yes I did "buy" my EW
> monograph and would never cut it up.

I  hope I never implied any other, I just did not want to jump to that 
conclusion.. Assuming things when discussing or debating them is a 
surefire way to get smacked around by reality.

>
> "First thing we do, is kill all the lawyers."
> William Shakespeare, Henry VI
>
First up against the walls when the revolution comes, closely followed 
upon their heels by hairdressers, and marketing execs..  ;-)


[Keith]
 
 

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