On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipe...@zog.org> wrote: > 2009/9/18 Durova <nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com> > >> If I were to place restorations under copyleft license it would backfire. >> Not necessarily backfire against me personally, but against the free >> culture >> movement. Look at the "paint by numbers" analogies within this list >> thread: > > many people cannot distinguish between careful hand restoration and simple >> crop/filter/auto-levels editing. My featured picture restorations take >> about ten hours' labor on average and one of my greatest fears is that >> fellow Wikimedians will mistake that for five minutes of running plug-ins. >> Imagine how simple it would be for an institution to protect its income >> stream by exploiting that confusion. >> > > I'm sorry, but I don't understand your argument. > I know firsthand that hand restoration takes time. I also know that some > people can't distinguish hand restoration from dust&scratches + auto levels. > > I stand by my painting by numbers analogy for most digital restorations. But > even if it weren't the case, and digital restoration was as incomparibly > hard an frought with judgement calls as, say, the [[Restoration of the > Sistine Chapel frescoes]]... do the restorers assert any rights? Should they > be able to?
Fascinating article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Sistine_Chapel_frescoes Particularly this bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Sistine_Chapel_frescoes#Response_to_the_restoration Fantastic article, in fact! Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l