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FW: To the Members of the World Wide Panorama Project
Mark D. Fink 2008-May-26 17:32:00
Since it looks like this email went out to individuals, I thought I would
forward it to the group. If you are interested in seeing the attachments,
let me know, but it sounds like they just modified the language. No mention
at all about stealing the images without permission...
Mark
www.nyc.360cities.net
www.pinnacle-vr.com
www.northernlight.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Petra Kaiser [mailto:#removed#]
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 12:44 PM
To: Petra Kaiser
Subject: To the Members of the World Wide Panorama Project
Dear Members of the World Wide Panorama Project,
at first I would like to thank you very much for your time dealing with
our request and for your replies, your comments, suggestions and for
voicing your concerns.
As requested by some of you who wrote to us, we would herewith like to
withdraw the phrase saying that we assume your consent, if we do not
receive any comments from your side. We would like to thank you for
alerting us to the fact that many members of the World Wide
Panorama-Project might not agree with this paragraph.
Attached to this mail, please find the document that was changed
accordingly. We'd be happy if those of you who might under these
circumstances be willing to give us their consent would send us the
agreement form by e-mail or by fax.
We'd also like to state again that, of course, the crediting of the
individual authors of the panoramas goes without saying and is of
paramount importance to us.
For the sake of good order, please note that we have not received monies
or entrance fees for the Globorama Project so far. When it was presented
to the public, it was free of charge. As described before, ZKM is a
public institution. The financing of the project was ensured by the
Information Technology Funding program of the federal state of
Baden-Wuerttemberg. This is a non-commercial project the purpose of
which is purely scientific. The goal of Globorama within that context is
to present the objective of the research activities in an intuitive way
and to attract people to the possibilities of large-scale projection
systems and to the possibilities and fascination of VR-technology.
Since it is already a sensation to travel around the world using a novel
panoramic image transformation for satellite data, it makes it even more
attractive for visitors to enjoy the beauty of surround photography and
visit distant locations in a panoramic environment. ZKM understood that
this was one of the purposes and a concern of World Wide Panorama
Members and we are more than happy about every author who gives his
permission to use his images and to contribute to Globorama.
Once again, thank you very much for your time and your feedback,
Sincerely,
Bernd Lintermann
Head of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media