[alt-photo] Re: Gum over platinum article?

[Keith Gerling]

All this pearl-clutching over intellectual property is really rather
pointless since Stuart received a one time fee for this article (and a
rather small one), and View Camera has already given the OK to distribute.

Denny, the magazine will be in the mail this afternoon.  If you are a
newcomer to alt-process, I would advise you to hunt down Judy Seigel's "Post
Factory Journal" or Christina Z. Anderson's "Alternative Processes
Condensed" for what I would consider an easier and more success-prone
approach.  I seem to recall that Stuart Melvin lived in Santa Fe, so perhaps
his concern with humidity and temperature is as a result of that, but his
technique is entirely too fussy for me!  However, the resulting work
displayed here is really quite lovely to view.

Keith


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Don Bryant <donsbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> >
> Don, thanks for your reply here...always better to err on the side of
> copy"right".
> >
>
> Paul is indirectly referencing the recent copyright debate and law suit of
> Jay Maisel vs. Andy Baio, and the dubious concept of copy "left" being
> posited by some. So I'm not so sure that openly copying and distributing an
> article in the name of fair use even for non profit is legal.
>
> But my main concern was not to infringe upon Stuart's intellectual
> property.
> As for inter-library loan of an article published in a niche specialty
> magazine being available, that surely is a possibility though many library
> systems are charging for ILL services or curtailing them altogether because
> of reduced budgets. This is the case in my own local public library system
> (charging a fee for each request.) And not everything is available for
> loan,
> so good luck with that.
>
> We could spend forever discussing copyright issues. Let's not, nothing
> productive will come of it, instead make your own decision and act
> accordingly. I would rather see a vigorous discussion about gum printing
> and
> gum-overs sans the drama of a meaning less debate about copy "right" vs
> copy
> "left".
>
> Don
>
>
>
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