Annette, Please be aware that, in the US at least, images taken by someone else, even if they are published on-line, are under copyright protection unless permission to download is explicitly stated on the website. The ebay buyers who restrict download are protecting their copyright, which they have every right to do. Downloading without permission is in violation of US copyright law which has international force, although many people do it and are not in the usual course of things going to be prosecuted. Just be careful distributing the photos, for example to your museum, because publishing them without the copyright-holder's permission, even inadvertently, does stand a higher likelihood of prosecution and you wouldn't want to get your museum in trouble. Just FYI. Nancy Connecticut, USA >________________________________ > From: Annette Meldrum <ameld...@ozemail.com.au> >To: 'Laurie Waters' <lswaters...@comcast.net>; lace@arachne.com >Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2013 8:00 PM >Subject: RE: [lace] Two major lace auctions in October 2013 > > >Thanks Laurie for posting the link to this auction. >I have enjoyed saving some of the images together with the very detailed >descriptions. It is always good to learn how to accurately and descriptively >describe pieces of lace. >I need to do it for the lace collections I work with but also it is useful >when describing our lace work for exhibition labels and catalogues. >It is very commendable that the auction house allows downloading of the >images though some are not too clear. It is annoying when sellers on ebay >restrict access to the images. It makes me think twice about buying from >them as they are just being mean. > >What a lovely way to spend the morning, lost in lace. >Annette in sunny Wollongong Australia. > > > >Yet more of Pat Earnshaw's collection (very nice pieces) will be sold at >Kerry Taylor on October 14th, see > >http://tinyurl.com/pnuhr5p > > >Laurie > >http://lacenews.net/ > >- >To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: >unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to >arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: >http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > > >- >To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: >unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to >arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: >http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > > >
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