[WikiEN-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipedia at zog.org> wrote:
> 2009/9/18 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>
>
>> If I were to place restorations under copyleft license it would backfire.
>> Not necessarily backfire against me personally, but against the free
>> culture
>> movement.  Look at the "paint by numbers" analogies within this list
>> thread:
>
> many people cannot distinguish between careful hand restoration and simple
>> crop/filter/auto-levels editing.  My featured picture restorations take
>> about ten hours' labor on average and one of my greatest fears is that
>> fellow Wikimedians will mistake that for five minutes of running plug-ins.
>> Imagine how simple it would be for an institution to protect its income
>> stream by exploiting that confusion.
>>
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand your argument.
> I know firsthand that hand restoration takes time. I also know that some
> people can't distinguish hand restoration from dust&scratches + auto levels.
>
> I stand by my painting by numbers analogy for most digital restorations. But
> even if it weren't the case, and digital restoration was as incomparibly
> hard an frought with judgement calls as, say, the [[Restoration of the
> Sistine Chapel frescoes]]... do the restorers assert any rights? Should they
> be able to?

Fascinating article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Sistine_Chapel_frescoes

Particularly this bit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Sistine_Chapel_frescoes#Response_to_the_restoration

Fantastic article, in fact!

Carcharoth