[AT] Grain Binders and nudity....

Guy Fay fayguyma at execpc.com
Tue Mar 2 17:28:05 PST 2004


The images were not given to the Wisconsin Historical Society to post on 
the net for free. In fact, most of these images were donated to the 
Society before the net existed. Part of the agreement with the donor 
states that the Society would use the collection to raise money for its 
preservation.

DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:

>The part i can't understand is if these were given to the Wis, Histerical 
>com. to post on the net free for all to see then who is being damaged if one 
>makes a copy even if he sells it and what can you get for a copy anyway. Not much 
>I would assume. And if you put it on your website one here and one there who 
>would even know it.  I don't think anybody is going to just download everything 
>that they put up and then make their own site and charge to see it because 
>that's just plain dumb. Why buy something that is free anyway. people sure do 
>get over excited about copyrights.
>Rosie ODonnal sued a local radio station for using the name Rosie as if she 
>was the only person in the world with that name, she lost of course and Spike 
>Lee sued a Sat. channel for calling itself Spike TV he also lost. Some people 
>just go overboard on this stuff. If they were loosing big money from someone 
>using their copyright then i say go after them but remember its only a picture 
>and there has to many more copies out there owned by others. And you can only 
>hold the copyright as the original person who took the picture and that only 
>good for a specific time some of these pictures must be way out of their 
>original copyright by now. Also even if you make changes by adding that sign on the 
>side or correcting bad spots or other things you still cnnot copyright it as 
>yours it belongs to the guy who took the picture.
>
>I say just put them up and let things be as they are why make everyone mad as 
>they view the pics with all that garbage that the crook doesn't care about 
>anyway.
>Well i have spent to much on this I agree with Cecil clean the darn things up 
>and post them to the net and then forget about all the work that you have 
>donabeen paid for its all past history by now.
>
>Walt Davies
>Cooper Hollow Farm
>Monmouth, OR 97361
>503 623-0460 
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