wwp@yahoogroups.com:
The WWP spirit (was: Re: ZKM globorama hassle)
Carl von Einem 2008-Jun-05 21:08:00
--- In #removed#, "Josh" <wwp@...> wrote:
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> Oh come on now - what is this - a campaign against me and my work?
There is no such campaign. I guess several people of the wwp community
just ask themeselves if you follow your own special agenda with zkm. I
certainly do so now, since you don't seem to realise what happened here:
The World Wide Panorama is a non commercial project of the panorama
community, a group of 900 artists (including you and me) who sometimes
do panoramas as a hobby, sometimes for a living. We make no difference
about that and we are proud of the non commercial, artistic nature
that only could work in this lovely Berkeley "panorama pond" that we
all bathe in.
I don't know if you followed the sometimes very emotional discussions
about feeding the wwp in a VRMag related site. There was a conclusion
to not display the whole of the wwp in another context. Search the
archive (and read it).
Now with the zkm copyright infringement we have a bad situation for
this very community: if we are not able to make sure that the license
that the wwp uses is respected by third parties none of us can be sure
that he or she can fulfill the contracts with people and institutions
involved in the creation of the panorama. This could be the end of the
wwp but I bet the community will only grow stronger. There is a
large number of wwp-artists who are willing to actively defend our
rights as a community. I am part of that group.
You just don't realise that your fov (or point of view) is not
panoramic (i.e. broad enough) but very selfish. It looks to me as
though you follow your own short sighted path.
Carl