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Re: To the Members of the World Wide Panorama Project
caroling 2008-May-27 12:23:00
Dear to whom it concerns, including:
Petra Kaiser <#removed#> (secretary)
Bernd Lintermann <#removed#> (project responsible)
"Prof. Peter Weibel" <#removed#> (ZKM board)
Christiane Riedel <#removed#> (ZKM general manager)
I do not approve your unauthorized use of my panoramas from the World Wide
Panorama web site. I forbid you to use my panoramas and content from the site
starting now and in the future. I support any of the rest of hundreds of
panorama developers from the web site that might share my position and opinion.
Note that the WWP content is not properly called a photo. It takes much more
than a camera to create a WWP panorama. It takes more than a panorama to create
a WWP entry. The use of the term "photo" alone is grounds for a law suit.
Since you contacted me via the Internet I assert that a proper response is via
the Internet. I do not appreciate you asking me to make a statement via the
expensive postal system. In addition to not joining the WWP list as we would
like, you make barriers to our communication and our need to protect our rights
and our work. I expect an art museum to respect artists.
Sincerely,
Caroling Geary
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Caroling, www.wholeo.net
---------------------- Original Message: ---------------------
From: Petra Kaiser <#removed#>
To: Petra Kaiser <#removed#>
Subject: To the Members of the World Wide Panorama Project
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:25:04 +0000
> 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
>
>
>