On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:32 AM, jesus2099 <[email protected]> wrote: > > jacobbrett wrote: >> >> I think adding a watermark to artwork is a horrible idea. It would dilute >> and corrupt the quality of the artwork, as well as act against Artist >> Intent. It would also conflict with the open-source/public domain >> principles of MusicBrainz. >> > > Then why don’t we store lyrics in plain text ? > It’s very small and useful data. But the copyrights wouldn’t allow that. > Is it less in « conflict with the open-source/public domain principles of > MusicBrainz » to link to unselectable lyrics ?
The lyrics case is quite different, because of all kind of legal things. And even if the lyrics are unselectable, you're still able to read them without having DON'T COPY THESE LYRICS printed over them every two lines. This is a technical limitation that doesn't damage the quality of the actual content (the lyrics) while the watermarks do damage the quality of the content (the images). (it's also easy to bypass, but that's a different thing) > Pictures would be here for a reference and information purpose — we could at > last have the correct titles and credits. > If we’re in search of « the quality of the artwork », we just get the real > stuff and this way obtain the perfect genuine printings in our hands, man. > :) > > Picture are the best reference for a release ; a good usable reference > absolutely doesn’t need to be verbatim to be usable ; a verbatim high > resolution picture might lead the archive to some grey area. The grey-or-not areas have been discussed between the Internet Archive and MB and the Internet Archive is confident on its legal basis. So in principle there's no need for it. If there was a need for adding watermarks to all images, I can imagine we would just not have an archive at all. > Tristan la patate > > ----- > jesus2099 × Ti = Tristan + patate12 ÷ saucisson7 > mb : http://musicbrainz.org/user/jesus2099 > mb userscripts : http://userscripts.org/users/31010/scripts > -- > View this message in context: > http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/Ozon-ru-now-including-watermarks-on-cover-images-tp3934404p3947141.html > Sent from the Musicbrainz - Style mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
