Re: [Killietalk] API is looking for photos

["Erny May" <emay1 at wi_rr.com>]

Well  "Just wishing the sun would shine in Michigan",

I agree with you. In addition, all of those "beautiful photos" have so much
copy right scrawled all over them that it is hard to enjoy them but I'm
sure no one will copy them. It is almost to the point where, in an effort to
protect intellectual property, it is being strangled. But that is the 
"owners"
right; sharing anything has become  pass'e in a time when people pursue
hobbies to make money. I wager to state that there is not a crafts person,
brick layer, engineer etc. in other words, any artisan who has not put
countless hours into their chosen efforts which for the vast majority of the
time are simply shared. Makes for great human relations!
Have a good new year

Erny

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Cook" <kcook at sdgdocs_com>
To: "'killifish discussion list'" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] API is looking for photos


>I was just musing as to whether or not we were biting the hand that feeds
> us. And I actually still don't know if API is such a hand.  Who's to say
> that if someone doesn't feel generous with a couple of photos that all
> future API donations, which may or may not be significant, "dry up?"
>
>>>         Oh I see, 35 years of work, thousands of hours of work, 
>>> thousands
>
> of images taken in order to develop the skills in order to produce quality
> publishable images is nothing................. not to mention the artistic
> and intellectual property involved.................................<<
>
> I certainly didn't mean to insinuate that it was "nothing." With all due
> respect to your position as a very highly regarded individual in our
> organization, I was just suggesting that you would have pursued this 
> aspect
> of our hobby(photography) regardless of whether or not you thought API
> desire to purchase some of your photos some thirty years hence. You do it
> because you like it, not for profit. You, and many like you, already have
> the photos. Hence my "cost us nothing" comment.
>
>>>         the owner of the intellectual property makes individual 
>>> decisions
>
> on what should be done with his/her work and it really does have
> value.............................<<
>
> True.  And I'm sure not saying, "Tony, pony up and send these people some
> pictures." Those beautiful photos we see with your name on them are
> certainly your property to do with as you see fit. I'm a teacher (though 
> I'm
> sure you can't tell from my poor sentence structure) and do not have the
> private sector experience where ideas are guarded jealously and patented.
> If someone has a good idea, they share it with other teachers with no
> concern for "intellectual property rights."  We do it for the greater good
> of the students which we are all trying to educate. I'm not saying this is
> right or wrong, just my experience. Your experience seems to be different.
>
>>>         It is certainly anyone's right to ask
> .........................  but the issue of not costing anything is a
> little removed from reality.<<
>
> I would also suggest that none of us get "justly compensated" for the 
> hours
> we put in to our hobby. We do it for the love of our hobby and all of its
> facets. And again, I'm not trying to convince you to part with some of 
> your
> photos, just wondering how "neighborly" we are obligated to be. I don't 
> have
> a sense one way or the other.  I trust, however, you feel API should be
> charged for the rights to any of your pictures irrespective of any
> relationship they've fostered with the killifish hobby or the possible
> publicity killifish would receive as a result of their proposed ad 
> campaign.
>
>
>
> Keith
> AKA #9058
>
> Just wishing the sun would shine in Michigan.
>
>
>
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