Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alan Hull wrote: > SNIP > > Good point Carl, but surely the value of those images is mainly historical. > Maybe the answer to the problem is a sort of statute of limitations on the > publication of unreleased photographs. Say five years, that way the > archives are secure for future generations, A two year limit would secure > even the book publishers from legal action. > > Alan Hull > Alan, If the cigarette manufacturers in this country can work a deal absolving themselves from further litigation from a quantifiable harm, maybe there's a similar approach for the booksellers whose publications do no harm. The irony, if I remember my college classic Chinese history, is that one of the reasons for the downfall of Confucian society is that it became too top-heavy with rules and regulations; to the point that one could not act if it was not in accord with a prescribed set of principles. Was it Santayana who said those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it? Carl S. - -- Sometimes the wrong thing is exactly the thing you should do.