Re: New web site

[James Romeo <jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

They have ben stealing our work long before there was 
a web.
Here is a exp of somthing that happened to me back in the 60's  when digital was a dream
I did a lot of work for Fortune at the time Life used there staff Fortune used freelance.
We to shot our work and Time and Life prossed all our film.
I was working on a series on my own and I showed it to the editor at Fortune Iworked
a lot with.She thought Life might want to use it.
she sent it down to Life they held the work for a few weeks and than told
me they could not use.
A few months later Life ran a story almost the same as miner location and theam the same shot by the Life staff the editor was the one who held my work. I was rather p off
and so was the Fortune editor
In the many years I have ben working a few more thing happened to me
cyber space has just made it easier
Jame Romeo
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From: infrared@xxxxx
To: infrared@xxxxx
Subject: New web site
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:11:02 +1000

At 10:46 AM 7/21/00 -0500, you wrote: 
>On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:24:27 GMT, Stan Patz wrote: 
> 
> >The fact that my images appear only when the cursor is clicked on the title 
> >is both a design element and a small anti-theft device; it makes it harder 
> >to steal one of my pix. 
> 
>Realistically, the odds of being able to market a small screen image 
>are nil. The web, with it's bandwidth restrictions, is essentially is 
>its own anti-theft device. 
 
Been a few days since I checked my email..  Tom's covered some of these,  
but a couple of extra thoughts. 
 
That may be so, but one thing that many art directors do (and they'll  
openly admit this) is to use the image to make a mock up of a design, sell  
the idea to the client and then get someone to reshoot it... If they can  
use scans/photocopies out of stock photo catalogs they can use your image  
and if it's on the web there's bugger all you can do to stop them.  Our  
mapping agency for example wanted to protect their satellite images by  
making them viewable only in a java applet so you couldn't save  
them...  700 screen grabs and a lot of cutting and pasting later I now have  
a 70Mb greyscale satellite image (1km/pixel) of our entire state.  They've  
since changed the applet to display a watermark over the image which is  
about the only way you can stop this sort of use, but then it becomes quite  
obtrusive in your image... 
 
If you can see it on screen it can be stolen. Most "anti-theft" coding of  
html/javascript etc is a joke to anyone seriously intending to use your images. 
 
And as for site design...  unfortunately HTML is not a page/screen layout  
language.  It's designed to enhance content.  If you really want flashy  
design that will impress on any sized monitor then you'll have to go to  
something made for the job... either Shockwave Flash or PDF (or have  
multiple copies of your site for different resolutions, either user  
selectable or scripted, but either way it's a lot of work). As soon as you  
start designing for a particular screen size you will invariably annoy a  
certain portion of your audience and you'll then have to decide whether to  
change or just ignore the criticisms. 
 
 
Cheers 
 
Ben 
 
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