Digital BW, The Print

While a bit off topic, I thought given the interest the status of 
digital media protection this gourp has it might be of interest to know 
what seems to be going on.

There was an interesting story in the Washington Post this morning - and 
you can get it through there on line edition - Washingtonpost.com - that 
discussed all the issues involved with technology, internet, copyrights, 
network security and privacy. There is a big tug of war going on between 
the proponents pushing for an open and active internet, the interest 
concerned with the protection of digital media ( movies, music, our 
photographs etc.) and the privacy groups.  The issue discussed was how 
all these interest can be resolved without stifling federal government 
regulation.  For example there are several Napster like sites currently 
on line that provide the same basic service but fall outside the current 
restrictions in the copyright laws becaues of the way they operate.

Many years ago one of my first jobs in the DOD as a wet behind the ears 
new ex college math professor was related to public encryption. We were 
faced with the same issues back then and we still 25 years later haven't 
resolved them. This was in the mid '70s and that time it was recognized 
that encryption of unclassified information in both industry and 
government was necessary for the protection of privacy and exploitation. 
For example social security records medical records, bank records, etc. 
At that time public key cryptography was new - actually not new - but 
had just been reinvented by the academic community.

On one working group I sat there was a lawyer from the US Justice Dept. 
and I can remember his comments as if they were said yesterday. He said 
that technology is going to rapidly expand past the ability of our  
legal system is able to keep up. The legal systems moves at the speed of 
turtle and technology moves the speed of a rabbit. In the 3 to 5 years 
it takes a case to be resolved by the US Supreme Court technology has 
progressed by a factor of 10.  His example was "electronic signature." 
 How does the legal system determine if a set of bits belongs to a 
particular individual. With hand writing there is legal precedent but in 
general with digital technology there is no precedent and precedent 
comes very slowly and by the time there is sufficient law and case law, 
the technology is obsolete and the legal system will never be able to 
catch up.

Congress is wrestling with these issues and trying to perform a delicate 
balancing act - maybe one that can't be done. At the same time it's 
pushing hard to get nation wide affordable wideband internet to each and 
every household. The conclusions of this article ( and some others I've 
read) was that there would have to be a revamping of a lot of concepts 
concerning digital media ( and most likely a dilution of the current 
copyright laws regarding digital media )  in order for the digital 
technology to flourish and to make it's full impact on our economy. Of 
course the interest pusing the internet - the telecommunications 
industry is a direct odds with the digital media industry on just how to 
do this. Interesting to ponder.

Now back to surfing the internet to find the best scanner for my 
requirements and budget.

Cheers,
Truman



jjlphoto wrote:

> If I shot a photograph in 1992, but made the first
> > print of that negative in 2002, when was that photograph created as
> far as the
> > exhibition world is concerned?
> >
> > Conrad
>
> It's my understanding that if you are making a limited edition, the
> date is the date of printing. To pre-date the print would falsely add
> 10 years of "provenance" to the print.
> For example, here is a sample of one of my titles I place on the
> bottom of the print-
>       "Zacatecas Building Facade circa 1998".
> Then I place the edition number in the middle-
>       "3/15".
> Then on the far right, I sign it with the date of printing, noting 
> only the year-
>       "John Luke, 2002". 
> This print on demand
> certainly adds some stickey issues to making limited
> edition runs. It appears that the most ethical and consistant way is
> to run the entire edition ot one printing session, title and date
> them,  and archive the file for the art historians
> and archeologists (or possible book publication). Hope this helps. 
>
>
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