Re: Syndicate: Picture That: Australia in the Forefront

[getlucky@news4u.co.uk]

Not being rude Marko (I have no agenda here), but what do you mean about having a long way to go?  Is this to do with Aboriginal people or was that just an example?

I think we can all understand the reasons for limited access to photographs through the web, and I think that the arguments for 
ownership of photographs are quite convincing.  If the photographer is the originator of an image, why should s/he not be able to control its use?  You appear to question the photographer's right and suggest that the image automatically belongs to the nation.  Is this really your view?  By the same token, could we not argue that the authors of, say, important literature native to a certain country, or painters who create representative works, have no real 'ownership' or rights to their work?

I am really interested to hear your views on this, and hope you  (and perhaps others)  will respond in the friendly spirit in which this message is sent.

Kind regards,

Kelly.


-----Original Message-----
>From : marko kosnik <march@kud-fp.si>
To : media@web.net; syndicate@aec.at
Date : 19 March 2001 08:43:55
Subject : Re: Syndicate: Picture That: Australia in the Forefront
on 3/19/01 5:52, George(s) Lessard at media@web.net wrote:
>
>> ?... Australia has recently released a new Web service for the discovery of
>> its 
>> cultural heritage in pictures. The service, called PictureAustralia,
>> http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
>> was built using a combination of standard metadata, Z39.50 and XML. However,
>> the most significant building block has been collaboration.
>
>aloha,
>
>under the register of aboriginal art search will find 154 photos, but only 5
>of them are accessible trough the web - for the rest there are fees, or
>whatever procedures falling into the category of ?limited access?. don't
>want to question the policy of copyrights in this case. it is just such an
>interesting example, how a photographer becomes an owner of a piece which
>belongs to cultural heritage (australian?, national?) just to be propagated
>later on trough the national archives.
>long way to go.
>
>marko kosnik
>
>
>-- 
><march@kud-fp.si>
>http://www.iflugs.hdk-berlin.de/emi
>


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