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Re: Mr. Petra petition
Bo Lorentzen 2008-May-22 04:16:00
Sticking point is still that they assume concent if we do MOT clearly
tell them no.
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On May 21, 2008, at 10:11 PM, Uri Cogan <#removed#> wrote:
> lulviz wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I personally think that Mr. Petra petition is a good opportunity to
> > show more of the WWP community development and activity, in this
> sense
> > is a very good thing.
> > Obviously the possibility of use of this great gallery of
> interactive
> > panoramic photography has to be under the explicit assent of its
> > authors, this been done in a individual or in a collective manner.
> >
>
> Yes. Ms. Petra Kaiser (Petra is a female name) had been made aware of
> the requirement for explicit assent. I don't believe there should be
> any
> compromise on that.
>
> The request from ZKM is signed by a Mr. Brend Lintennann, Head of the
> ZKM I Institute for Visual Media, so he may be the one to talk to.
> >
> > Its important that the corresponding credit including a link to its
> > respective web page (if it has one) is given to any use or
> publication
> > of the Author work made by this project.
> >
>
> They appear to mention credit; see their letter below.
>
> That letter came in the form of three separate Adobe Acrobat documents
> (.pdf) saved as images (?), so I had do screenshots of the images and
> OCR them to extract the text. The consent form however was attached
> as a
> .doc file. Here is the extracted text from the .pdf files:
>
> -----------------
>
> To the Members of the World Wide Panorama Project
>
> Karlsruhe, den 08.05.2008
> Institut für Bildmedien Durchwahl / Ext.: -1500
> E-Mail: image©zkm.de
>
> We are addressing you on behalf of the ZKM I Center for Art and
> Media in
> Karlsruhe, Germany, http:/Iwww.zkm.de ("ZKM"). ZKM is a public
> cultural
> institution that focuses on contemporary and especially on media
> art. At
> the ZKM an artistic research project has been conducted in cooperation
> with the University of Konstanz. The project was funded through the
> Information Technology Funding Program of the federal state of
> Baden-Wuerttemberg. The project explores new forms of visualizing
> satellite image data.
>
> The project entitled "Globorama" is a Panorama Screen, measuring 8m in
> diameter and 2.8m in height. The environment was implemented to
> display
> interactive panoramic movies via 6 projectors. The material that can
> be
> displayed includes 3 D animations and 360 degree video footage. The
> project explores innovative forms of the representation of satellite
> images which in addition serve as a basis for creating new information
> spaces by integrating site-specific information from the Web that
> can be
> accessed and navigated by the visitors of the installation..
>
> The goal was to enable the users to travel the entire globe by means
> of
> a laser pointer. To experience not only a bird's eye view of the globe
> respectively to see different locations from different heights, but to
> be able to explore the chosen location, the researchers and artists
> developed a prototype of the installation that makes it possible to
> include panoramic images from the web.
>
> We are addressing you because you contributed to the World Wide
> Panorama
> Project with one or several images. We are aware that the copyright of
> all images lies with the individual photographer.
>
> However, the developers of "Globorama" would like to integrate to
> their
> prototype version pictures from the World Wide Panorama Project to
> explore the feasibility of the application developed. For this
> purpose,
> it will be necessary to store the images on a server at the ZKM.
> Please
> note, that the images will be used for the Globorama' Project only.
> The
> ZKM will present this project as part of different international,
> non-commercial exhibitions, such as the ideenPark 2008". This first
> exhibition will take place in Stuttgart, beginning on May 17, 2008.
>
> In the installation, the users will be able to click on icons, which
> will then open the image of the respective location. Along with this
> icon, a notice of copyright [C] will appear, including the title of
> the
> image and the name of the photographer.
>
> We'd be highly grateful if you would consider favorably our request,
> and
> thus contribute to the project, which would enable users to experience
> other users' resp. a communities views and experiences of a thus
> personalized location. Please be informed that we assume your consent,
> if we do not receive any comment from your side.
>
> We would highly appreciate to have your consent in writing and have
> thus
> prepared the form attached to this letter. We kindly invite you to
> fill
> out the form and send it to ZKM via fax or via Mail (pdf-Format). In
> case you do not consent to ZKM's use of your images displayed in the
> WVVPP and do not want to contribute to the "Globorama" Project, we
> also
> invite you to fill out the form. Should you explicitly contradict to
> the
> use of your image, ZKM assures that the image will be banned from the
> project.
>
> We'd be more than happy to answer any further questions you might have
> with regard to the project, and are looking forward to hearing from
> you.
>
> With kind regards and thank you very much for your cooperation,
> Brend Lintennann Head of the ZKM I Institute for Visual Media
>
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