Comments on Rambling Traveler: HDR Photography at Stuck in Customs

What? Are you afraid your wild-eyed hippie-sympat...

2007-04-09T20:38:40.184-05:00

What? Are you afraid your wild-eyed hippie-sympathizing brother is going to scare away your customers? :-) You were going for lighter fare in this blog? (Hold on, Mom's yelling at me to come up from the basement. Mom! I'll clean my room later!)

Yikes... I chose to work under the creative common...

2007-04-09T20:26:22.183-05:00

Yikes... I chose to work under the creative commons license because I think it's a good idea, and I'm glad you are so passionate about free culture, but I don't know if many people understand what we are talking about.

For my other readers, if you want to read more about free culture, check out my brother's site, MovingToFreedom.org

Well, it looks like he has his terms mixed up. I ...

2007-04-09T19:58:47.100-05:00

Well, it looks like he has his terms mixed up. I had looked at the bottom of the site which is Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) and links to the BY-SA license, which allows commercial use as long as the new work is based on the same license. The top says no non-commercial use but doesn't link to a license.

While he obviously has the right under current copyright law to offer it on his own terms, this isn't taking part in free culture if you try to restrict the creativity and rights of others to build on your work. (Which was built on the work of others and so on.)

I disagree about the coolness of possible reuse for profit. That new work would be likewise free for reuse and profit by others, assuming proper attribution and maintenance of the free terms, and that would help contribute to a healthy public domain for further works to be created. (Although public domain is different than CC, of course.)

The commercial/non-commercial distinction is thin at best. Your site here is commercial because of ads and Amazon affiliate links. While your use might be fair use, do you want to worry about petty distinctions of what commercial really means?

I know this is extreme for some people, but I really believe that once the bits are published, then they should be free for copying and reuse under the free terms. The bits are non-scarce. New business models will be needed for people to make money on their creative work. Since time and attention are still scarce, there will be ways. For example, paying for the work up front. Trey's work appears to be extremely popular -- I bet he could make money even if he did offer it under truly free terms.

Scott, you are such a purist... Actually, his site...

2007-04-09T18:11:44.173-05:00

Scott, you are such a purist...

Actually, his site does say No Commercial Use Without Permission at the top of his header. Not sure why the license doesn't say anything about it.

I don't have a problem with it, though. He puts a lot of work into his images and it wouldn't be cool if someone else profited from them without his permission.

Those pictures are really cool -- thanks for the l...

2007-04-09T16:56:56.722-05:00

Those pictures are really cool -- thanks for the link. And I also love that he's putting them out there as ShareAlike and not with the petty non-commercial clause. :-)

Hi, Mike! I was just at your blog, reading your l...

2007-04-09T09:09:23.617-05:00

Hi, Mike! I was just at your blog, reading your latest post, so it made me laugh that you were on mine at the same time.

Trey's pictures are amazing. I'm interested in reading more about HDR, so thank you for the links!

That's some gorgeous travel photography!I've read ...

2007-04-09T09:02:46.839-05:00

That's some gorgeous travel photography!

I've read up on HDR quite a bit and it's a fascinating technique. Understanding how it works from a technical standpoint is not rocket science, but actually putting it to work in a creative and unique way is something different altogether.

A few interesting tutorials on it here:
http://flickr.com/photos/cleever/255026221
and
http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/