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Greetings Professor Nelson and
Colleagues,
I direct your attention to the following
page:
In the process of generating useful content on the
web I have come across two problems.
The first is that while in August there was a
useful example of a Trancopyright picture of Ted Nelson available
at
http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp which I was able to link to my site, and provide
a transcopyright notice, this no longer seems to exist. I am keen to
get similar image and transcopyright links if they are still available - as I
think it is an important thing to have on the credit page of the site I have
designed.
The second problem is with suppliers of copyright
material - I am fully in favour of micropayments.
However, potential content suppliers do not "get"
the concept of web publishing - two glaring examples are Associated Press, who
wanted to charge upwards of $300 USD for a single AP photo (too costly if you
want to do montages of AP photos - imagine trying to pay for a page with tens of
thousands of dollars worth of AP photos on it), and telelvision stations who
wanted to charge $3000 NZD a month to put up a small .MPG of one of their news
articles.
In both cases they are hidebound and thinking of
their traditional media - $3000 is not an unreasonable amount to charge for TV
broadcasts, with their high overheads and astronomical advertising income.
Likewise, $300 is not too much to pay for an AP photo to publish in a
book. But both are wildly too high when you are considering of putting
them in an assemblage on a website, that perhaps 1000 people will visit in its
entire lifespan. With unrealistic charges such as these, we cannot
possible afford to add content to the web, and the web will be so much the
poorer for it.
Your thoughts?
Kind Regards,
Christopher Harrod MSc (Hons)
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