Re: [photo-3d] Copyright concerns

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <drt-3d@xxxxxxx>]

>> I always acknowledge the source and I am not making a penny.
>> Is that enough?
>
>Actually it isn't. IMO. To give an extreme but I think valid 
>example [snip]

I was trying to make it short and sweet but I should have
known someone would create a story like that...  So,
let me fully reply to Mike Canter's idiotic remark:

>And I trust that you fully respected the copyrights of all 
>of the original artists whose work and labour you've pirated, 
>oops, copied...maybe I should say "borrowed"?

I have not pirated or "borrowed" anything!!!  This is material
that I have bought. I have bought Boris' slides and I have
bought a copy of the Museum 3D book.  I want to show these
stereo images to a small group of people, inside the
premises of a private institution.  I have copied a few
images from the book on slide film and have remounted a
couple of Boris' images in Realist format so I can 
show the images in projection, instead of passing a viewer
or a book around.  I have not stolen anything and I am not 
selling anything.  So, what's wrong with that?

The worse that can happen is for someone to say, "Oh, now 
that I have seen a sample of Boris' work, I don't need to buy 
any of his images", or "Well, now that I have seen a small sample 
of these painting conversions in the Museum 3d book, there is
no reason for me to buy the book."  But you know that exactly
the opposite will happen, people will rush to buy Boris'
slides and Museum 3D books because they are very impressed
with the samples they saw. I am doing free advertisement for
these guys!

These are the only example of recent & copyrighted work I can 
think of.  The rest are basically all my images, or not 
copyrighted work (amateur slides form the 50s) or images that 
no one really knows or cares if they are copyrighted (Keystone
stereoviews from 100 years ago).

George Themelis